This series features documentary films that illuminate the lived experiences of the people in the Russian Arctic, presenting the diverse social, gender, age, and ethnic perspectives as well as various visual languages and cinematic approaches. Bringing different portraits of life in this remote region considered a part of the global Arctic, this series will cinematically connect circumpolar territories of Russia with the US, Canada, Greenland, Norway, Iceland, Finland, and Sweden through depictions of human lives in the seemingly isolated and extreme natural environment.
RSW Documentary Film Series
Fall 2022
Power, Poetics, and Play: Documenting Soviet Legacies
Art and scholarship meet in this 2021 documentary film series offering a critical lens for better understanding Russia. Hosted by the Russian Studies Workshop in partnership with IU's Center for Documentary Research & Practice.
Fall 2021
“Truba” ("Pipeline")
A 2013 documentary directed by Vitaly Manskiy.
RSW screening of “Truba” ("Pipeline")
Spring 2021
"Будинок" ("Budynok")
2019 documentary film directed by Matilda Mester and Tatjana Kononenko
RSW Screening of "Budynok""Operation Wedding"
2016 documentary film directed by Anat Zalmonson Kuznetsov
RSW screening of "Operation Wedding"