Earth
Capturing the Marvelous: Ukrainian Poetic Cinema
September 7 - 12, 2012
Live piano accompaniment by Makia Matsumura!
One of the greatest of all silent films, Earth is Dovzhenko’s consummate meditation on nature’s cycles of death and rebirth, set in a village being prepared for collectivization.
Live piano accompaniment by Makia Matsumura!
Dovzhenko's undisputed masterpiece (and a prerequisite to viewing anything by Tarkovsky or Kiarostami), Earth is a rumination on nature's cycles of death and rebirth. That this primeval meta-myth, like most of the director's work, grew out of a banal Agitprop assignment–to make a film that would support the then-intensifying efforts at collectivizing Soviet agriculture–only makes it more of a wonder. The serenity reaches truly mystic levels when the culprit in a murder, ostensibly crucial for the narrative, confesses the deed yet hardly anyone seems to care or bother to notice. Not to worry: the earth will do its own healing, and mete out its own punishment.
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