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Renata Litvinova’s
Death, Diva,
and Empire
Renata Litvinova’s
We are all future dead people. I do not separate the theme of life and the theme of death. They are very close. We are all later doomed to learn this question in detail
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Renata Litvinova
Filmography: !
2013 The Girl with a Box 2013 Salma's Letters 2012 Rita’s Last Fairy Tale 2008 Green Theater in Zemfira
(documentary) 2007 “A Walk,” “Blues,”
“Aeroplane,”“Data” (music videos, Zemfira)
2004 The Goddess: How I Fell in Love 2002 There is No Death for Me
(documentary)
Litvinova’s artistic world
split Russian cultural world !
imperial culture
Death, Diva,
and Empire
3 characteristics of Litvinova’s empire
• hierarchy between the dominant metropole (world of death) and subordinate periphery (world of living people)
• geographically extended entity: empire lives in every beautiful building, every mirror, and every personal unconsciousness
• diversity and hybridization: Litvinova’s empire is rich in textures, colors, accessories. it is multi-generational
3 characteristics of Litvinova’s empire
• hierarchy between the dominant metropole (world of death) and subordinate periphery (world of living people)
• geographically extended entity: empire lives in every beautiful building, every mirror, and every personal unconsciousness
• diversity and hybridization: Litvinova’s empire is rich in textures, colors, accessories. it is multi-generational
hierarchy:
the dominant metropole (world of death) VS. subordinate periphery (world of living people)
mother-daughter
diva-her audience
invisible government-people
=mother
=mother-Russia
diva
mother-Russia-diva
Addressing you now with this film in twenty, or thirty, or fifty, or even a hundred years, we will still smile and reign unlike you, mortal people. Nothing bad could happen to us on this strip of film. Henceforth, we are immortal here
Mother-Russia--Diva-Death
Tania «Cannot-Be-Killed»
“I would like my death to be a beautifully dressed woman with a glass of champaign. Let her talk about only important things and do not mess around. Ok?”
“I would like my death to be a beautifully dressed woman with a glass of champaign. Let her talk about only important things and do not mess around. Ok?”
3 characteristics of Litvinova’s empire
• hierarchy between the dominant metropole (world of death) and subordinate periphery (world of living people)
• geographically extended entity: empire lives in every beautiful building, every mirror, and every personal unconsciousness
• diversity and hybridization: Litvinova’s empire is rich in textures, colors, accessories. it is multi-generational
borders
3 characteristics of Litvinova’s empire
• hierarchy between the dominant metropole (world of death) and subordinate periphery (world of living people)
• geographically extended entity: empire lives in every beautiful building, every mirror, and every personal unconsciousness
• diversity and hybridization: Litvinova’s empire is rich in textures, colors, accessories. it is multi-generational
diversity
love as meaning of life
love as meaning of life
love as meaning of life
love as meaning of life
love as meaning of life