International conference "Cinema and Capital"

Program

May 26

9:00am Registration

9:40am Conference opening: Danila Raskov (SPbU), Aleksander Pogrebnyak (SPbU)

10:00am Morning Session. Moderator: Danila Raskov

• Oleg Aronson (Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow) "From the Photogeny of Poverty to the Kinogeny of Money"
• Nina Savchenkova (SPbU) "Excess and Scarcity in the Cinematic Experience: The Position of the Author as a Formative Principle"

11:30am Refreshment break

12:00pm Parallel sessions

Cinema and Capital: Political Economy or Psychoanalysis? Moderator: Viktor Mazin

• Valeria Petrenko (National Research Tomsk University) "'Cinematographic' Subject and His Phantasm: The Economy of Desire and Consumption"
• Victor Mazin (SPbU) "Cinematic Time and Industrialization of the Ideological Phantasm"
• Dmitry Golynko (St. Petersburg State Institute of Film and Television) "Capitalist Realism and Its Alternatives: Visual Models of the End of History and the End of Capitalism in Contemporary Cinema"
• Aleksander Kechik (SPbU) "Representation of Capitalism and Consumerism in David Cronenberg's Movies"
• Nina Koll (Utrecht University, Netherlands) "The Affective Economies of Staging Participation in the Cinema"

Film Industry Today: The Environment and the Production Process. Moderator: Elena Kaschenko

• Ivan Blagikh (SPbU) "Cinema as Business and Politics"
• Aleksandra Veselova (SPbU) "The Functioning of an Author-Brand in the Contemporary American Cinema: Terrence Malick's Case"
• Elena Kaschenko (SPbU) "Producers or Authors? The Final Comment to the 'Zolotoy Orel' Prize (Moscow, January 2017)"
• Ksenia Pevzner (SPbU) "TV-Series as a Relevant Format of Modern Popular Culture"
• Anna Gudkova (Moscow) "'Success' and 'Money' in Contemporary Russian Cinema"
• Irina Martyanova (Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia) "Film Director vs Producer: A. Zvyagintsev and A. Rodnyansky"
• Tatyana Lukicheva (SPbU) "The Choice of Marketing Communications Channels and Digital Tools to Promote Films in the Russian Market"

Economics and Aesthetics of Cinema. Moderator: Zhamila Dvinyatina

• Olga Davydova (SPbU) "Towards the Aesthetic of a Moving Image: Cinematic Motion, Space and Time in Jean Epstein's Film Theory"
• Ekaterina Kulinicheva (Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow) "Costumes and Fashion Brands in Films: On the Economics and Aesthetics of Cinema and Cinematic Images"
• Vladimir Kozlovsky, Polina Zinovieva (SPbU) "Body Aesthetics in Contemporary Russian Remakes"
• Mikhail Zakharov (Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography, Moscow) "Blood Bank: The Economy of Vision in Brian De Palma's Passion"
• Vladimir Ignatiev (Novosibirsk State Technical University) "Cinematography as a Technology of Myth"

Soviet and Foreign Filmmaking–History and Heritage of the Alternative Models. Moderator: Aleksei Artamonov

• Maria Terekhova (State Museum of the History of St. Petersburg) "Aleksander III's Pants Starring in Soviet Movies: Nationalized Costumes in Historic Movies of Sevzapkino Film Studio"
• Olga Volchek (SPbU) "War and the Germans: The Golden Age of French Cinema under the Оccupation (1940–1944)"
• Olga Lazareva (St. Petersburg State University of Culture and Arts) "Key Features of the TV-Series Production in the Republic of Korea"

Marx and Cinema. Moderator: Aleksander Pogrebnyak

• Kirill Adibekov (Moscow) "The Three Stooges: Marx, Vertov, Godard"
• Nikolai Margiev (SPbU) "Unmastered 'Capital' of Sergey Eisenstein"
• Yaroslav Gradil, Darina Polikarpova (SPbU) "'Who Framed Karl Marx?' Neo-Marxism and Contemporary Film Studies"
• Aleksei Pryakhin (Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia) "Revolution in Cinema and Cinema in Revolution. Ties Between 'The Most Important of Arts' and Society in Periods of Radical Change"
• Polina Khanova (Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences) "Representation of Class Conflict in 'Seven Samurai' (1954), 'The Magnificent Seven' (1960) and 'The Magnificent Seven' (2016)"

2:00pm Lunch

3:00pm Afternoon Session. Moderator: Anna Gudkova

• Oleg Berezin "The Economic Situation of the Modern Film Industry in the Context of the Cyclical Development of the Cinematography Industry"
• Victor Skubey (Moscow) "Author's Documentary: Financing and Distribution"

4:00pm Coffee break

4:30pm Parallel sessions

Film Industry and Global Capital. Moderator: Oleg Berezin

• Oulia Makkonen (University of Helsinki, Finland) "Christian Scripture as Script: Neo-orientalism, Universalism or Re-appropriation. A Study of Transnational Coproduction and Biblical Text Adaptation in Malian Film La Genese (Genesis, 1999)"
• Anastasia Senokosova (Ural Federal University, Yekaterinburg) "Walter Shpisa's Films: Ethnographic Research and the Stimulation of the Economy of Bali (Indonesia) in the 1930s"
• Daria Pushkina (SPbU) "International Security in the Contemporary Films of Armed Conflict"
• Dmitry Ivanov (SPbU) "The 'Oscar' Awards: From Manifestation of Hollywood Glamour to Business Model for Glam-Capitalism"

Ethical and Religious Aspects in Cinematography. Moderator: Sergey Lukin

• Konstantin Golubev (Belarusian State Economic University, Belarus) "Gordon Gekko and Marketing Ethics in the Era of Financial Capitalism"
• Sergei Lukin (Belarusian State University, Belarus) "Ethical and Economic Aspects of Message in Color from the Authors of 'Wizard of Oz'"
• Pavel Lysakov (SPbU) "Robert Bresson's Pickpocket: Money, Cinema and Dostoevsky"

Economics and Aesthetics of Cinema. Moderator: Zhamila Dvinyatina

• Ksenia Kapelchuk (Sociological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences) "Movement, Time, Machine: The Problem of the Film Image"
• Zhamila Dvinyatina (SPbU) "Housing Problem in the Soviet Cinema of the 1930s: The Case of a Professor's Apartment"
• Stanislav Savitsky (SPbU) "Viscount and Viscountess de Noailles—the Patrons of the Avant-Garde (About the 'Golden Age' by Luis Bunuel)"
• Anton Bubnovsky (Far Eastern Federal University, Vladivostok) "Economics and the Economy of Visual Image"

Soviet and Foreign Filmmaking–History and Heritage of the Alternative Models. Moderator: Aleksei Artamonov

• Svetlana Semenchuk (St. Petersburg State Institute of Cinema and Television) "The Experimental Creative Union: The Experience of the Market Economy in the USSR in 1960s–1970s"
• Denis Khriukin (St. Petersburg State Institute of Cinema and Television) "Crisis Economic Parameters of the Functioning of the Soviet Cinema of 1968–1985 and Their Importance in Transformation of the Russian Film Industry"
• Ivan Golovnev, Elena Golovneva (Ural Federal University, Yekaterinburg) "The Culturfilm in the USSR: The Ethnocultural Heritage and the Propaganda"

Marx and Cinema. Moderator: Aleksander Pogrebnyak

• Aleksander Pogrebnyak (SPbU) "Capital: Speed and Memory (Gilles Deleuze Watches Orson Welles)"
• Aleksander Ogarkov (St. Petersburg Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design) "Capitalism Is Impossible Without the Cinema"
• Maria Rakhmaninova (St. Petersburg Mining University) "A Family as a Subject of the Reflection about Capitalism in the Classical 20th Century Cinematograph"

6:00pm Coffee break

6:10pm Evening Session. Moderator: Aleksander Pavlov

• Lorenzo Chiesa (University of Genova, Italy) "Giuseppe De Santis's Bitter Rice: A Communist Musical?"
• Elena Vogman (Free University of Berlin, Germany) "Marx's Metamorphosis and Eisenstein's 'Capital'"

May 27

10:00am Morning Session. Moderator: Aleksander Pogrebnyak

• Andrey Gornikh (European Humanities University, Lithuania) "Capital Movement and 'Moving Pictures:' On the Genealogy of Cinema"
• Vyacheslav Kornev (Bonch-Bruevich St. Petersburg State University of Telecommunications) "Capital as a Movie Character"

11:30am Refreshment break

12:00pm Afternoon Session. Moderator: Nina Savchenkova

• Sergey Kropotov (Ural State Economic University, Yekaterinburg) "City of the 'Crystals of Time' (Deleuze) in 'The Land of Oz' Film by Vasily Sigarev"
• Yury Tulupenko (Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia) "Kenneth Boulding: The Economy as a Movie"
• Vitaliy Kurennoy (Higher School of Economics) "The Past as a Resource for Cinematography"

2:00pm Lunch

3:00pm Parallel sessions

Food, Cinema and Capital. Moderator: Yury Veselov

• Stefano Magagnoli (University of Parma, Italy) "From the War Hunger to the 'Grande Bouffe.' The Representation of Food in the Italian Movies since 1945 to Now"
• Olga Nikiforova (SPbU) "The Reinstatement of Values Through Food Practices (The Study of Russian Movies)"
• Yury Veselov, Olga Taranova (SPbU) "Eating and Drinking Together: Building Social Capital and Trust Through the Repast in the Leonid Gaidai's Comedies"
• Jin Junkai (SPbU), Liu Zhengyu (Institute for Cultural and Social Research Sokendai, Japan) "The Critique and Recovery of Cultural Identity. Chinese Food Culture in the Movie 'A Bite of China: Celebrating the Chinese New Year'"

Economics of Filmmaking: Practical Problems and Their Solutions. Moderator: Denis Kadochnikov

• Pavel Danilov, Aleksander Evmenov (St. Petersburg State Institute of Cinema and Television) "Comparative Effectiveness of State Support for Cinematography Abroad"
• Andrey Yushkov, Lev Savulkin, Nina Oding (Leontief Centre) "Financing of Cinema in Russian Regions: How Much and Why?"
• Sergey Reshetin (Moscow) "Creating an Artificial Deficit as the Main Principle of the Economy of Film Festivals"

Russian Economy in Cinematography. Moderator: Aleksei Artamonov

• Maria Vorobiova (Ural State Economic University, Yekaterinburg) "'Easy Money,' Wheeler-Dealers, Accidental Victims: Wealth and the Rich in the Soviet Cinema of 'Zastoy' Period"
• Irina Basalaeva (Kemerovo State University, Novokuznetsk) "(Non) Complex Trajectories of the Post-Soviet Cinema about Siberia"
• Yaroslavna Shiryaeva "Soviet Economy and Its Future in the Movie 'Beware of a Car'"
• Andrey Zaostrovtsev (Higher School of Economics) "The Movie 'Leviathan' as the Political Economy of Modern Russia"

Projects of the Future: Utopia and Dystopia in Cinema. Moderator: Grigory Tulchinsky

• Grigory Tulchinsky (Higher School of Economics) "Cinema as Anamnesis of the Social Conceptual Capital of the Mass Consumption Society (From Utopia to the Loss of the Future and to the Horrorization)"
• Yakov Lurie (Aalto University, Finland) "Through the Thorns of Crimea to the Stars of Birobidzhan: Two Resettlement Utopias in Soviet Propaganda Cinema"
• Natalia Marievskaya (Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography, Moscow) "Utopian Panopticon Pattern Throughout Film Space (Ulrich Seidl's, Michael Haneke's, Alex van Warmerdam's, Yorgos Lanthimos' Films as Examples)"

Gift and Waste, Excess and Poverty in Cinema. Moderator: Nina Savchenkova

• Ksenia Illina (SPbU) "Money and Its Symbolism in Films by Dardenn Brothers"
• Irina Golovacheva (SPbU) "Spending, Saving and Drinking: Three Bases of Henry Koster's Comedy"
• Maria Gribova (SPbU) "Spectator's Blindness and Hypotyposis of Cinema"
• Yulia Popova (SPbU) "The Capitalization of Death in Contemporary Cinema"

4:30pm Coffee break

4:40 Parallel cessions

Gift and Waste, Excess and Poverty in Cinema. Moderator: Nina Savchenkova

• Olga Kirillova (SPbU) "Nastasia Filippovna's Capitalization after K. Marx and J. Deleuze (Based on Dostoevsky's Filmings)"
• Aleksei Bocharov "Poverty in Cinema: Experience Analysis"
• Viktor Nepsha (SPbU) "The Bourgeois and the Non-possessors of the Soviet Cinema in 1960s–1970s: The Case of a Geologist"
• Lyubov Bugaeva (SPbU) "Revolution and Consumption: 'Duet for Cannibals'"

Economics of Filmmaking: Practical Problems and Their Solutions. Moderator: Anton Berezutsky

• Elena Zhbankova (Lomonosov Moscow State University) "Domestic Capital vs Foreign One in the Russian Pre-revolutionary Cinema Production"
• Denis Kadochnikov (SPbU) "Cinema and the Symbolic Capital of a Territory"
• Anton Berezutsky (SPbU) "A New Generation of Independent Cinema Directors at Hollywood's Service"

Russian Economy in Cinematography. Moderator: Aleksei Artamonov

• Aleksander Dubyansky (SPbU) "The Ideological Role of Television Series in Russia"
• Elena Nekrasova (Russian State Institute of Performing Arts) "Pierre Bourdieu and Russian Cinema. Analysis of Social"
• Denis Saltykov (Higher School of Economics) "'Not about Politics:' Director's Symbolic Capital in Russian Author Cinema"

Projects of the Future: Utopia and Dystopia in Cinema. Moderator: Danila Raskov

• Tatiana Martynenko (Lomonosov Moscow State University) "The Image of Social Inequality in Dystopian Movies in the Early 21th Century"
• Sergey Levin (Higher School of Economics) "Personal Identity and the Myth of Consumption"
• Danila Raskov (SPbU) "Utopia in Film: The Story of One Failure (Albidum, 1928)"

Economics of Film Distribution. Moderator: Alisa Nasrtdinova

• Oksana Maistat (Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany) "Advertising and the Perception of the Soviet Post-revolutionary Cinema in Germany"
• Kristina Tanis (EUSP) "Trophy Films in the Context of Soviet-American Strategies of Film Exports in the 1940s and 1950s"
• Eugene Gindilis (Moscow) "An Independent Producer in Contemporary Russian Film Industry: The Choice Between Success and Bankruptcy"
• Yury Yashnikov (Irkutsk) "Regional Cinema in Contemporary Russia. The Production And Distribution"

6:10pm Coffee break

6:30pm Evening Session. Moderator: Sergey Kropotov

• Aleksander Pavlov (Higher School of Economics) "How is Capitalism Represented in Cinema?"
• Elisa Cuter (University of Turin, Italy; Free University of Berlin, Germany) "Automatic Subject, Character Mask, and Robots—Artificial Intelligence as a Representation of Technology's Paradox in Post-industrial Capitalism"