Unreal Estate
Documentary screening + Q&A
- Date
- 16 January 2025
- Time
- 17:00 -18:45
- Location
- BG 3
- Room
- VOX-POP, ground floor
In this experimental documentary, the filmmaker wants to overlie the pain felt by her parents– survivors of the Holocaust and labour camps – with happy memories and testimonies to their closeness. For more than 25 years, she has been trying to influence their memory and the family history with the power of images and wishful thinking, and thus heal the past. In this debut film, she turns her parents into actors in their personal story. The Russian summer house as a collection of metaphors, where time is not linear but mythical: the story continues while repeating itself.
The Department of Slavic Languages & Cultures and student organization Radost screen her film - with support from the Netherlands Institute of Cultural Analysis - in the presence of the maker, followed by a Q&A
Ksenia Galiaeva 1976, Pskov, Russia; lives and works in Antwerp, BE and Amsterdam, NL. Represented by Ellen de Bruijne Projects. Galiaeva teaches at Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam. Her works have been exhibited in solo and group shows, amongst others in Schiedam Museum - NL, Fries Museum - NL, Stedelijk Museum ’s Hertogenbosch - NL, Moscow MOMA - RU, Seoul MMCA Changdong – KR.
The film ‘Unreal Estate’ premiered in 2024 at the Netherlands Film Festival.
Ellen Rutten is Professor of Slavic Literatures at the University of Amsterdam and co-founder of the academic solidarity network UNE (the University of New Europe). Her interests include contemporary and historical (Central- & Eastern-European and global) art, literature, cultural heritage, and social media. Among other publications, Rutten is author of Sincerity after Communism (Yale University Press 2017) and co-editor of Imperfections: Studies in Mistakes, Flaws, and Failures (Bloomsbury 2022, ed. Kelly/Kemper/Rutten).
