Wed Oct 7 · 5pm
Beyond the Battlefield: Maryna Er Gorbach's Klondlike and the remaking of war cinema
Yuliya V. Ladygina opens the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute's three-part Petro Jacyk Seminar series arguing that cinema has become an expanded battlefield beyond combat. Through Maryna Er Gorbach's Klondike (2022), she shows how centring a pregnant heroine's embodied experience reveals unseen violence and resistance, widening the war genre and shaping international understanding of the conflict. The film is set in the Donbas in July 2014, as MH17 is shot down.