Ilona Jurkonytė
@ilonajurkonyte.bsky.social
Film Curator, Film and Environmental Media Researcher Arts & Science Postdoctoral Fellow | Cinema Studies Institute | University of Toronto
Nuclear coloniality, cinema's military industrial complex, space botany
Nuclear coloniality, cinema's military industrial complex, space botany
For the occasion to speak about this in Chicago, I am grateful to Darya Tsymbalyuk, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Department of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago.
Please stop by if you are around. events.uchicago.edu/event/243969...
Please stop by if you are around. events.uchicago.edu/event/243969...
Ilona Jurkonytė: Spatial Parameters of Cinema Rescue
After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, in the formerly Soviet states, a vast network of cinemas was left suspended—unlike other cultural inst...
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January 31, 2025 at 1:57 PM
For the occasion to speak about this in Chicago, I am grateful to Darya Tsymbalyuk, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Department of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago.
Please stop by if you are around. events.uchicago.edu/event/243969...
Please stop by if you are around. events.uchicago.edu/event/243969...
I hank institutions and funding sources that at different stages supported my thinking, especially, in terms of academic research. Thank you: VU IIRPS, VU Foundation, UofT Arts&Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowship.
January 31, 2025 at 1:57 PM
I hank institutions and funding sources that at different stages supported my thinking, especially, in terms of academic research. Thank you: VU IIRPS, VU Foundation, UofT Arts&Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowship.
This is probably because, as Gediminas Urbonas, together with co-authors Ann Lui and Lucas Freeman, emphasize, ‘public space is a perennial and open concern’ (in Public Space? Lost and Found, 2014). Cinema as a public space tends to appear quite mundane, but not until you start losing it...
January 31, 2025 at 1:57 PM
This is probably because, as Gediminas Urbonas, together with co-authors Ann Lui and Lucas Freeman, emphasize, ‘public space is a perennial and open concern’ (in Public Space? Lost and Found, 2014). Cinema as a public space tends to appear quite mundane, but not until you start losing it...
To my own surprise, every time I seem to have more to say about this topic. I guess that is the beauty and generosity of the public space – once you start thinking about it, it continues giving.
January 31, 2025 at 1:57 PM
To my own surprise, every time I seem to have more to say about this topic. I guess that is the beauty and generosity of the public space – once you start thinking about it, it continues giving.