"Ali Khamraev (b. 1937, Tashkent) is one of the great living filmmakers whose work has been too-little-seen in the western world. Throughout his career Khamraev has exhibited extraordinary artistic range, transitioning from realist social dramas to the "Ostern" ("Eastern") genre of films- which transpose American Western tropes onto the regional history, landscapes and politics of the Eastern Bloc- and settling into a deeply poetic, personal style reminiscent in various ways of his friends and colleagues Sergei Parajanov and Andrei Tarkovsky."
"The five films presented in Khamraev's first dedicated New York retrospective exemplify that trajectory and speak to the depth of artistry achieved in each phase of the filmmaker's oeuvre. With keen attention to the Uzbek/Soviet culture clash following the Russian revolution (in particular, the conflict between atheistic and Islamic value systems) and a deep, creative symbiosis with his native landscape, Khamraev's work makes a strong case for the place of Central Asian cinema in the 20th century canon."
Ali Khamraev (b. 1937, Tashkent) is a distinguished living filmmaker whose work remained little-seen in the western world. His career shows extraordinary artistic range, moving from realist social dramas to the Ostern ("Eastern") genre that transposes American Western tropes onto Eastern Bloc history and politics. He later developed a poetic, personal style with affinities to Sergei Parajanov and Andrei Tarkovsky. His films attend to Uzbek/Soviet cultural clashes after the Russian revolution, especially tensions between atheistic and Islamic value systems, and often use the native landscape as a creative partner. A five-film New York retrospective, organized with Anthology Film Archives and Asia Society, presents that trajectory and includes Without Fear, a 1971 feature about a fourteen-year-old girl who chooses to drop the veil in her village.
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