2025: Sergei Loznitsa, “Factory: In Conversation with Deniz Göktürk”
Sergei Loznitsa, “Factory: In Conversation with Deniz Göktürk”
UC-Berkeley Mosse Lecture
https://mosselectures.wisc.edu/berkeley/
Wednesday, 5 February 2025, 19:00 PDT
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA)
2155 Center Street
Berkeley, CA
Moderator: Deniz Göktürk
Sponsored by:
Global Mosse Lecture Series
The Mosse Foundation
UC Berkeley Department of German
BAMPFA
UC Berkeley Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures
Townsend Center for the Humanities
The UC Berkeley Department of German and BAMPFA are pleased to host Sergei Loznitsa’s Mosse Lecture. The Berlin-based filmmaker has directed more than thirty films that examine history, politics, and cultural identity from a European perspective. His illustrated presentation addresses his aesthetic approach to documentation and artistic practice as a filmmaker who frequently works with archival imagery to create essay films and is also a writer/director of feature films. Included as part of this presentation is a screening of his visually striking early short film Factory (2004).
The annual lecture is generously supported by the Mosse Foundation and reflects the foundation’s mission to promote cultural exchange and political engagement. The Mosse Lectures were originally founded in 1997 at Humboldt University in Berlin to commemorate the history of the Mosse family, their patronage of the arts, and their contributions to intellectual life through the German-Jewish publishing house run by Rudolf Mosse and the newspaper Berliner Tageblatt.
Films in this Screening:
Factory (Fabrika) Sergei Loznitsa, Russia, 2004
In 1981 he was admitted to Kiev Polytechnic Institute, with the major in applied mathematics and control systems. In 1987 he graduated with a degree in engineering and mathematics. From 1987 through 1991 Sergei Loznitsa was employed as a scientist at the Institute of Cybernetics. He was involved in the development of expert systems, artificial intelligence and decision-making processes. In addition to his main job, Loznitsa worked as a translator from Japanese. During that time he developed a strong interest in cinematography and in 1991 he applied to the Russian State Institute of Cinematography in Moscow. After passing a very vigorous selection process, Sergei Loznitsa was admitted to the Institute. He studied in the studio of Nana Dzhordzhadze. In 1997 he graduated with honors with the major in movie production and direction.
From 2000 he had been producing works in the Studio of Documentary Films in St. Petersburg. In 2000 he was awarded the “Nipkov program” grant in Berlin. In 2001 Loznitsa immigrated with his family to Germany.
Sergei Loznitsa has directed 22 internationally acclaimed documentary and 4 feature films.
She has held awards and grants from the DAAD, the Economic and Social Sciences Research Council (ESRC) in the UK, the Institute for European Studies, the Institute for International Studies, the Townsend Center for the Humanities, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, and Digital Humanities at Berkeley. She has been an invited fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study Konstanz and the Center for Cinepoetics at the Freie Universität Berlin.
On campus, she holds affiliations with the Department of Film and Media, the Berkeley Center for New Media, Digital Humanities, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, the Center for Race and Gender, the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, and the Program in Critical Theory. She has participated in cross-campus collaborations on “Cultural Forms in Transit” and a strategic working group on “Circulation.” She is co-founder and concept coordinator of TRANSIT, the electronic journal launched by the Berkeley German Department in September 2005, and coordinator of the Multicultural Germany Project.
