Esfir (Esther) Shub's Work to be Discussed during Women and the Silent Screen Archival Screenings
/Esfir Shub
Esfir (Esther) Shub’s SEGODNYA (USSR, 1930), straight from Gosfilmofond, the most extensive Russian film archive, will be screened for the first time in the US since 1932. It will be shown June 2nd at Women and the Silent Screen (WSS), a biennial international conference sponsored by Women and Film History International (WFHI).
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Gartenberg Media distributes Shub's earlier THE FALL OF THE ROMANOV DYNASTY (1927), culled from pre-Soviet Russian newsreels gathered from Europe and America, as part of the 4 disk DVD collection, LANDMARKS OF EARLY SOVIET FILM.
Passionate about showing historical facts and not merely staged reenactments, Shub created her film entirely from historical footage filmed in pre-revolutionary Russia and Europe between 1913 and 1917. The result – which came to be known as PADENIE DINASTII ROMANOVYKH (THE FALL OF THE ROMANOV DYNASTY, 1927) – became a big success, both in its own time and beyond, and redefined the idea of montage documentary. Shub’s approach to selecting film material and the editing methods she used in THE FALL OF THE ROMANOV DYNASTY set the work apart from its compilation film predecessors.
THE FALL OF THE ROMANOV DYNASTY (PADENIE DINASTII ROMANOVYKH) (USSR, 1927)
Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna