7:30-10:00 pm screening: Dni zatmeniya/Days of Eclipse (Aleksandr Sokurov, Russia, 1988) 139 min.

This late Soviet-era science fiction traces medical school graduate Malyanov sent to work in Turkmenia. There he encounters victims of the government’s plan to relocate multiple ethnic groups. One wonders if in this bleak futurity there are premonitions of our contemporary situation.

Columbia University Film and Media Studies Memorial to Fredric Jameson honors his work on the science fiction genre in film and literature. Screening one of his favorite films returns us to his lesson: how to read the politics of our historical moment in the products of mass culture.

Co-sponsors:

Columbia University

Dean of Humanities
Film and Media Studies, School of the Arts
Department of English and Comparative Literature
Institute for Comparative Literature and Society
Department of Slavic Languages
The Harriman Institute at Columbia University

The Department of English at Princeton University