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documentary film-maker, writer and teacher |
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The American Who Electrified Russia 105mns / DV / 2009 |
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Screening in competition at the Punto de Vista International Documentary Festival in Pamplona, 5-13 Februry 2010 |
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A film about the role of the individual in history, and of history in the individual. Solomon Trone (1872-1969), a cousin of the film-maker's grandmother, is a figure unrecorded in the history books, whose life was nonetheless intertwined with History, but in paradoxical fashion: as a communist revolutionary and a director of General Electric (first in Russia, then the USA). Drawing on archives both public and private, this is also a film about the gap between family memory and public knowledge of history—not the history we think we know, but another history, lived in another way. The film wesbite will be found here Michael Chanan is Professor of Film & Video at Roehampton University, London. He is a seasoned documentary film-maker who made films on music for the BBC in the 1970s, and on Latin America for Channel Four in the 1980s. He is the author of books on cinema, including Cuban Cinema (2004) and The Politics of Documentary (2007), and on music, including Musica Practica (1994) and Repeated Takes (1995). His last film, also funded by the AHRC, was Detroit: Ruin of a City (with George Steinmetz, 2005). |
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Made with assistance from the Arts & Humanities |
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