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    FILM & VIDEO

    Out of the Present

    Out of the Present

    Presented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive

    October 7, 2011

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    Directed by Andrei Ujica
    Germany 1999, digital video, color, 96 min.
    Russian with English subtitles

    In 1989, during Soviet cosmonaut's Sergei Krikalev record-breaking 18-month mission on the Mir space station, the Soviet Union collapsed. Krikalev's hometown was Leningrad when he left and St. Petersburg when he returned. His accomplishment is notable in and of itself, as Ujica amply illustrates in this documentary, yet by juxtaposing this feat with the monumental events unfolding on Earth, Out of the Present renders Krikalev's journey into a breathtaking elegy for the end of the Space Age and the end of an ideology. Mixing video from the space station with his own film material – including the first 35mm film ever exposed in space – Ujica likewise interweaves fact and fiction through references both obvious and subtle to Kubrick's 2001 (1968) and Tarkovsky's Solaris (1972) launching the thrilling existential quandaries of those films into present-day reality.


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        Harvard Film Archive

        Harvard Film Archive Cinematheque
        24 Quincy Street
        Cambridge, MA 02138

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        $9 - Regular Admission
        $7 - Non-Harvard Students, Harvard Faculty and Staff, and Senior Citizens
        Regular HFA screenings are free for all Harvard students with a valid photo ID.

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        October 7, 2011

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        7pm

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