Svetlana Boym: Exile and Imagination

A one hour documentary about the life and work of Svetlana Boym, literary and cultural critic, and media artist, who, in 1980, age 21, quit the USSR for the US. Within 7 years, she was professor of comparative and Slavic literature at Harvard. A writer of ambitious scope, combining personal memoir with philosophical essay and historical analysis, she explored motifs of exile, nostalgia, the diasporic imagination and different forms of freedom. Through videos of her lectures, interviews (with Masha Gessen, Vitaly Komar and others), photographs, and her film, we convey Svetlana Boym’s brilliance, warmth, and wit.
Svetlana Boym, The Future of Nostalgia
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Svetlana Boym, Common Places: Mythologies of Everyday Life in Russia
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The Svetlana Boym Reader
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