This documentary film is about the life and work of Svetlana Boym, literary and cultural critic, media artist, novelist and playwright. In 1980, age 21, Svetlana left the USSR for the US, unable to pursue studies at the Leningrad university because of the Jewish quota. After graduate studies at Boston University and Harvard, she became the Professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature at Harvard. A brilliant writer of ambitious scope and great imagination, combining personal memoir with philosophical essay and historical analysis, she explored motifs of exile, nostalgia, the diasporic imagination and different forms of freedom in Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Nabokov, Mandelstahm, Akhmatova, Brodsky, and many others, in a total of six books, with two more about to appear.
Judith Wechsler
Director
Dana Villa
David Damrosch
Donald Fanger
Guiliana Bruno
Masha Gessen
Yuri Goldberg
Musa Goldberg
Sasha Sendrovich
Susan Suleiman
The Class of ‘9271%
McQueen74%
Directed by John Ford70%
Seduced and Abandoned62%
Public Speaking70%
In the Realms of the Unreal71%
I Am Heath Ledger74%
Tricked: The Documentary61%
My Mom Jayne80%
A Plastic Ocean75%
Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return67%
Sherman's March67%
John Candy: I Like Me78%
56 Up72%
The Skywalker Legacy78%
Girl Model65%
Gilbert67%
The Matrix Recalibrated69%
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty77%
Love, Marilyn66%
