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Sergei Loznitsa

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Years After its Release, a Film about Ukraine’s Donbass Region Seems Relevant Again

Avatar photo by Dan Schindel April 13, 2022April 13, 2022

Initially released in 2018 but never getting a proper run in the US, Sergei Loznitsa’s Donbass now finally comes to theaters.

Posted inFilm

The Post-Communist Cinematic Landscape of Eastern Europe

by Ela Bittencourt June 3, 2021June 3, 2021

Sergei Loznitsa’s expansive filmography is a great entryway to films from Ukraine, Poland, Russia, and more which grapple with the legacy of the Warsaw Pact.

Posted inFilm

Excavating Rare and Suppressed Footage of the Soviet Era

Avatar photo by Dan Schindel May 25, 2021May 25, 2021

MUBI gets Back in the USSR with a streaming series featuring archival documentaries by Sergei Loznitsa.

Posted inFilm

Honoring the Art of the Archival Film

Avatar photo by Andrew Northrop December 18, 2019

At the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, the Re-Releasing History program presented a dazzling array of movies built from found footage and more.

Posted inFilm

Curious and Notable Documentaries From the Toronto International Film Festival

Avatar photo by Dan Schindel September 17, 2019November 17, 2020

While most buzz tends to focus on future awards contenders, some great nonfiction comes out of TIFF every year. Here’s a guide to some of Hyperallergic’s favorite docs from the festival. 

Posted inFilm

A Chronicler of Soviet and Post-Soviet Life Blurs Fact and Fiction

by Tanner Tafelski January 11, 2019

At the Museum of the Moving Image’s First Look festival, audiences will get to see different sides of Sergei Loznitsa, who examines the past, the present, and where they intersect.

Flags, red carnations, and St. George ribbons are the accouterments of the revelers in Victory Day (2018)
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In Berlin, a Celebration of Soviet Might Takes on Nationalist, Pro-Russia Overtones

by Tanner Tafelski May 2, 2018

In his documentary Victory Day, Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa unflinchingly captures a ceremony in Berlin commemorating the Soviet defeat of the Nazis.

Posted inFilm

The Banality of Concentration Camp Tourism

by Craig Hubert February 16, 2017

We are attracted to the places where bad things have happened, but we rarely reflect on what actually occurred therein.

Posted inArt

When a Political Movement Becomes a Monument

by Jeremy Polacek December 15, 2014December 15, 2014

Around the world, the aesthetic of revolt flows unabridged, immediate, and jittery, the revolution in any room. Which makes Maidan, Sergei Loznitsa’s unblinking and stirring documentary of last year’s Ukrainian protests that ended in the ouster of President Viktor Yanukovych seem like even more of a formal, rigorous outlier.

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