Cantor Arts Center
328 Lomita Drive at Museum Way
Stanford, CA 94305-5060
Phone: 650-723-4177
February 8
Man with a Movie Camera
Director: Dziga Vertov
Running time: 68 minutes
Silent with music.
Introduction by Usha Iyer, Assistant Professor, Film and Media Studies, Department of Art & Art History at Stanford University
Before each film screening the speaker will briefly introduce the film and filmmaker. After the screening, the speaker will invite and answer questions from the audience. This program is presented in conjunction with the exhibition The Crown under the Hammer: Russia, Romanovs, Revolution, on view in the Ruth Levison Halperin Gallery at Cantor Arts Center and at the Herbert Hoover Memorial Exhibit Pavilion from October 18, 2017 - March 4, 2018.
OTHER FILMS IN THE SERIES:
January 25
October (Ten Days that Shook the World)
Director: Sergei Eisenstein
Running time: 95 minutes
Silent with music. English title cards.
Introduction by Karla Oeler, Associate Professor, Film and Media Studies, Department of Art & Art History at Stanford University
February 1
The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty
Director: Esfir Shub
Running time: 90 minutes
Silent with music.
Introduction by Srdan Keca, Assistant Professor, Documentary Film MFA Program, Department of Art & Art History at Stanford University
February 15
Lenin in October
Directors: Mikhail Romm and Dmitri Vasilyev
Running time: 93 minutes
Russian language with English subtitles.
Introduction by Bertrand Patenaude, Research Fellow, Hoover Institution at Stanford University
Free and open to the public. Advance registration is not required. Program starts at 6PM. Doors open at 5:30pm.