On March 5, 2020 Dragan Kujundžić will screen his new film “Sergei Shnurov and his Group Leningrad: A Window into Russian Rock Music,” at Columbia University’s Harriman Institute for Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies.
In 2016, Sergei Shnurov and his group Leningrad released two now-famous video clips, “Exponat” and “V Pitere pit’”, which were viewed almost 200 million times in 2016. This occasioned an opportunity for Professor Kujundžić to meet with Sergei Shnurov in St. Petersburg in December of 2016. Kujundžić and Shnurov talked about the literary tradition of St. Petersburg, as well as its art and history, as they inform the poetry and music of the rock group Leningrad. Kujundžić is a Professor of Jewish, Germanic and Slavic Studies as well as Film and Media Studies, European Studies, and Religion at the University of Florida. He is the author of numerous articles and books on critical theory, deconstruction and literary criticism, published in fifteen countries and translated in eight languages.Dragan Kujundžić is currently concluding a book Cinetaph: Spectral Genealogy of Cinematic Image, and filming Play It Again: Sam Weber.