Great Work Keith! She is a greatly under appreciated filmmaker/editor/artist; her own work and her influence/impact on Eisenstein almost invisible. best allan
On Tue, Mar 3, 2026, at 12:00, [email protected] wrote: > Send nettime-l mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.servus.at/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [email protected] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of nettime-l digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. A publication announcement (Keith Sanborn) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2026 14:53:13 -0500 > From: Keith Sanborn <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: <nettime> A publication announcement > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > > Friends, Romans? > > The ?great work? has finally come to a conclusion: my translation of Esfir? > Shub?s My Life is the Cinema is now available through Sticking Place Books. > This is the first complete translation of her memoir, statements, unrealized > projects, and correspondence (as they appeared in the 1972 Russian Edition of > her work) with a couple of letters between her and Alexei Gan, which?to my > knowledge?have never before appeared in English. It includes images you have > definitely never seen previously. It also includes an essay by me entitled, > ?She?s no Dziga Vertov,? about her relationship with Vertov as frenemies in > the world of soviet non-acted film and the fallout from that relationship in > the historical evaluation of her work.There is also a critique of what is > sadly the only monograph yet to appear on Shub, though other ones and > possibly better ones appear to be in the offing. > > In case her name does not ring a bell, Shub is the filmmaker behind Fall of > the Romanov Dynasty, one of the first feature-length compilation > documentaries, i.e. a film made of other films. She is also the director of > one of the earliest Soviet Sound Films, KShE, among other films and one of > the few women of the era to achieve the status of director/author for her > work. Oh, and she is the one who taught her friend Segei Mikhailovich > Eisenstein the fundamentals of editing. > > Further information can be had by clicking on the link below: > > https://stickingplacebooks.com/books/my-life-is-the-cinema? > My Life is the Cinema > stickingplacebooks.com > https://stickingplacebooks.com/books/my-life-is-the-cinema > > Please consider institutional or individual purchase. It?s available through > Amazon, but it?s cheaper if you go through the Sticking Place website via > Ingram, who prints locally in the US and the UK. I?m not sure if Ingram ships > to Europe, of course the dreaded Amazon does. > > If this mass-email is an annoyance, let me know and I will try to remove you > from any further mailings. Due to record keeping anomalies you may receive > this or a similar announcement more than once. Apologies in advance are in > bad taste, so I will reserve them for an offense committed. > > Onward! > > Keith Sanborn > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > -- > # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission > # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, > # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets > # more info: https://www.nettime.org > # contact: [email protected] > > > ------------------------------ > > End of nettime-l Digest, Vol 33, Issue 1 > **************************************** > -- # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: https://www.nettime.org # contact: [email protected]
