Ice Cream Station Zebra and Other Works

The four films on view chronicle Emily Newman’s experience raising a child in Russia, just as 21st century Russians were struggling to process their volatile national story into child-size spoonfuls.

With their help and participation, Newman sought to show how Russian parents and grandparents explained Communism and the Cold War to children. In light of Vladimir Putin’s brutal effort to rewrite/rebrand Russian history, her project was anything but an exercise in nostalgia.