East European Film Bulletin

Call for Papers

CFP: The Films of Kira Muratova

Proposals:       15^th of May 2019

Papers due:      15^th of August 2019

As part of its Ukraine focus 2019, the East European Film Bulletin is preparing a special issue on the films of Kira Muratova. We are looking for contributions on the films discussing and contextualizing their censorship, fabrication, and their role in the construction of a national Ukrainian film-identity.

With a film career spanning over 50 years, Muratova saw radical changes in her homelands, from the Kingdom of Romania where she was born in 1934, to the port city of Odessa where she spent most of her career. Near the end of her life, she supported the Euromaidan protesters and called for a pacifist Ukrainian revolution. She died in 2018 at the age of 83, having contributed a filmography of 44 surprising and radical films to this world.

The East European Film Bulletin is particularly interested in essays reevaluating major themes in her work, especially as they relate any of the following films:

By the Steep Ravine (У Крутого Яра, 1961)

Brief Encounters (Короткие встречи, 1967)

The Long Farewell (Долгие проводы, 1971)

Among Grey Stones (Среди серых камней,1983)

The Asthenic Syndrome (Астенический синдром, 1989)

Three Stories (Три истории,1997)

Proposals of 250 words should be sent to editors@eefb.org by Wednesday, May 15, 2019. A selection of the published papers is scheduled to be republished as part of a print edition of its regional focus on Ukraine 2019.

Stylistic guidelines for essays published in EEFB journal can be found here: https://eefb.org/contribute/

The East European Film Bulletin is a journalistic and literary project dedicated to the criticism of films related to Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe.

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