In the Fictional Shadow of Post-Production? The Silenced Creative Community and Gender Hyper(in)visibility Among Film Editors in Contemporary Russia
Khodyreva Anastasia
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fe2021042822445
Tiivistelmä
In this essay, I analyse the autobiographies of three female Russian editors in order
to explore the issue of editors’ invisibility in the Russian filmmaking community and among
average cinemagoers by tracking editors’ own reasoning for this matter. Here, the invisibility
is understood as average audiences’ failure to recognise the creative input and agency of film
editors, fueled by the lack of attention from festivals and professional film critics. In addition,
this essay attempts to assess the relations within the professional community of editors and
filmmakers at large by commenting on any potential linkages of the (self) identification of the
female gender to the hierarchies within the community. My guiding question is whether there
are any similarities or analogies between the hierarchisation processes and practices within
the narrow professional community and the hierarchised relations among all the Russian
filmmakers or within the today’s Russian gender ecology.
Keywords: Anna Mass; Dasha Danilova; Julia Batalova; Andrei Zviagintsev; Anna Melikian;
Vasilii Sigarev; Boris Khlebnikov; Avdot’ia Smirnova; editor; female editor; rezhisser
montazha; editor’s agency; gender relations; gendered hyper(in)visibility.
Kokoelmat
- Rinnakkaistallenteet [19207]