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[Preslav Nakov]

super site, vse oshte bezplaten, ima gotini bg predavanija -
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[Polina Dimova]

Dear All,

I would like to invite you to a UC Berkeley event dedicated to the Bulgarian director Binka Zhelyazkova. Along with Elka Nikolova's recent documentary on Zhelyazkova, followed by a Q&A session with the filmmaker, we will screen Zhelyazkova's most original and provocative film "The Attached Balloon," "Privyrzaniyat balon," (1967). It merits mentioning that this movie, shelved for more than twenty years after the official ban on it, is a collaboration between Binka Zheliazkova, Iordan Radichkov (screenplay, which will remind you of his play "Attempt to Fly," "Opit za letene"), and the best Bulgarian actors ever since: Grigor Vachkov, Georgi Kaloyanchev, Konstantin Kotsev, Georgi Partsalev, Georgi Georgiev-Gets, and others, whose names you will readily recognize. The voice of the Balloon is Kosta Tsonev's. Both films have English subtitles.

Please, find the information about the event pasted below and attached as a flyer with images. I will appreciate it very much if you could pass the word about this event to other lovers of Bulgarian, Balkan, or Eastern European film and culture who may be interested in attending.

For further information, please contact Polina Dimova at <pdimova@...>.

Chestita Baba Marta i Chestit Treti Mart!

All the Best,

Polina

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Binka: To Tell a Story about Silence (2006)

directed by Elka Nikolova

film screening followed by Q&A with the director

The Attached Balloon (1967)

directed by Binka Zhelyazkova

Tuesday, March 11, 2008, 2040 Valley Life Sciences Building, 7 pm, free admission

Filmmaker Elka Nikolova is a native of Bulgaria.  In 1994, after completing her MA in psychology at Sofia University “Kliment Okhridski,” she moved to New York to study at the New School for Social Research where she concentrated in film production (MA, Media Studies 2001).  Following her interests in human rights and the contribution of women to the arts, Nikolova began researching the life and work of Binka Zhelyazkova.  While working in the NY film industry and currently at Dateline, NBC, she completed the production of “Binka: To Tell a Story About Silence,” a documentary about the controversial filmmaker Binka Zhelyazkova, the first female Bulgarian director and one of the few women anywhere making feature films in the late 1950s.

This screening will be followed by a film by Binka Zhelyazkova, “The Attached Balloon” (1967), a rarely-seen Zhelyazkova film that was banned by the Bulgarian government shortly after opening to great acclaim in 1967.  In Zhelyazkova’s imaginative, touching, and funny film, a lost war-balloon threatens and entices the peasants of a magically reinvented Bulgarian village during the Second World War.  Hoping to capture and tame the floating beast, the wild peasants chase the balloon in a carnivalesque, irrational pursuit over twelve hours.  With her refined, bitterly satirical, and visually stunning cinematography, Zhelyazkova seems to explore the boundaries of artistic, political, and social freedom by flaunting the inscrutable meaning of the villagers’ adventures.

Binka: To Tell a Story About Silence, Director: Elka Nikolova, 2006, 48 min, Color

The Attached Balloon, Director: Binka Zhelyazkova, 1967, 90 min, B&W

Co-sponsored by the Institute of Slavic, East European & Eurasian Studies, the Consortium for the Arts, and the Departments of Comparative Literature and Slavic Languages & Literatures.

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[Polina Dimova]

Dear All,

This is a reminder about the event on Binka Zhelyazkova tomorrow, March 11, 7 pm, 2040 VLSB, Berkeley campus. Here is a campus map that will help you find the Valley Life Sciences Building (VLSB): <http://www.berkeley.edu/map/maps/CD23.html>. The event info is pasted below.

By a happy coincidence, Binka Zhelyazkova just won the parallel Bulgarian Academy Award for a lifetime of artistic achievement on February 27, 2008. So, come join us tomorrow for our celebration of Binka Zhelyazkova.

I hope to see you then!

Best,

Polina

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Binka: To Tell a Story about Silence (2006)

directed by Elka Nikolova

film screening followed by Q&A with the director

The Attached Balloon (1967)

directed by Binka Zhelyazkova

Tuesday, March 11, 2008, 2040 Valley Life Sciences Building, 7 pm, free admission

Filmmaker Elka Nikolova is a native of Bulgaria.  In 1994, after completing her MA in psychology at Sofia University “Kliment Okhridski,” she moved to New York to study at the New School for Social Research where she concentrated in film production (MA, Media Studies 2001).  Following her interests in human rights and the contribution of women to the arts, Nikolova began researching the life and work of Binka Zhelyazkova.  While working in the NY film industry and currently at Dateline, NBC, she completed the production of “Binka: To Tell a Story About Silence,” a documentary about the controversial filmmaker Binka Zhelyazkova, the first female Bulgarian director and one of the few women anywhere making feature films in the late 1950s.

This screening will be followed by a film by Binka Zhelyazkova, “The Attached Balloon” (1967), a rarely-seen Zhelyazkova film that was banned by the Bulgarian government shortly after opening to great acclaim in 1967.  In Zhelyazkova’s imaginative, touching, and funny film, a lost war-balloon threatens and entices the peasants of a magically reinvented Bulgarian village during the Second World War.  Hoping to capture and tame the floating beast, the wild peasants chase the balloon in a carnivalesque, irrational pursuit over twelve hours.  With her refined, bitterly satirical, and visually stunning cinematography, Zhelyazkova seems to explore the boundaries of artistic, political, and social freedom by flaunting the inscrutable meaning of the villagers’ adventures.

Binka: To Tell a Story About Silence, Director: Elka Nikolova, 2006, 48 min, Color

The Attached Balloon, Director: Binka Zhelyazkova, 1967, 90 min, B&W

Co-sponsored by the Institute of Slavic, East European & Eurasian Studies, the Consortium for the Arts, and the Departments of Comparative Literature and Slavic Languages & Literatures.

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