BIMI Screening: The American Who Electrified Russia with filmmaker Michael Chanan – a Culture interest event taking place on 2016-05-06 18:30:00 in United Kingdom
Event descriptionThe American Who Electrified Russia, Michael Chanan, 2005, digital, 105 minutesFollowed by a Q&A with filmmaker Michael Chanan, Professor of Film and Video Studies, University of Roehampton“A film about the role of the individual in history, and of history in the individual. Solomon Trone (1872-1969), a cousin of the film-maker’s grandmother, is a figure unrecorded in the history books, whose life was nonetheless intertwined with history, but in paradoxical fashion: as a communist revolutionary and a director General Electric (first in Russia, then the USA). Drawing on archives both public and private, this is also a film about the gap between family memory and public knowledge of history – not the history we think we know, but another history, lived in another way.” Michael Chanan,http://www.americanwhoelectrifiedrussia.co.uk/
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