Description: The first English-language collection devoted to Ukrainian filmmaker Kira Muratova (1934-2018).
Brief description: Irina Schulzki is the Publishing Director of the open-access journal Apparatus: Film, Media, and Digital Cultures in Central and Eastern Europe. Her research spans film and gesture, fan fiction, theories of the comic, phenomenology and media, Mikhail Shishkin's prose and the cinema of Kira Muratova. She has authored numerous articles and book chapters and edited several volumes and special issues, including "Mise en geste: Studies of Gesture in Cinema" (Apparatus 5, 2017; with Ana Hedberg Olenina) and Decolonising the (Post-)Soviet Screen (2024; with Heleen Gerritsen). She is currently completing the co-edited collection Cinéfemmes: Women's Cinema of the New Millennium (with Irina Gradinari; 2026) and a monograph, A Cinema of Gesture: Kira Muratova and the Poetics of the Moving Image.
Review Quotes: Restless, dissonant, and formally radical, the films of Kira Muratova resist easy interpretation. This volume brings together leading scholars to explore aesthetic, political, and philosophical dimensions of her work, addressing questions of affect, gender, gesture, gaze, defamiliarization, perceptual disruption, Muratova's position between auteur cinema and art practice, as well as the ethical and political stakes of her cinema. Moving across films, themes, and theoretical approaches, the volume reveals Muratova as one of the most original artists of her time.-- "Oksana Bulgakowa, Professor of Film Studies at the Gutenberg University in Mainz"