30.09 | 14:00-15:15

In the USA an artist drawing comics is called cartoonist, which already brings the creation of comics and animation closer. The lecture will tell about Persepolis (2000 – 2003), a graphic novel by Marjane Satrapi, which is part of the canon of contemporary authored comics. Persepolis is an autobiographic coming of age story of Satrapi himself, which starts against the background of Iranian revolution, brings the country to isolation and the character to complicated life between Iran and France, society and family, state and personality. In 2007, an animated film with the same title and based on the graphic novel was released. It was directed by Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud and obtained a jury prize from Cannes International Film Festival. During the lecture we’ll see how the narration is built and which forms artistic expression acquires both in the graphic novel and in the animated film; we’ll also discuss how each medium allows to tell a personal story and who the heroes and villains in this story are.

Lecturer

Borys Filonenko is an art critic, lecturer and curator.   

Since 2011, he has cooperated with Ya gallery, Pavlo Gudimov’s art center (Kyiv, Dnipro); since 2014, with Come In gallery (Kharkiv); since 2016, with Aza Nizi Maza art center (Kharkiv). Co-founder of educational project with Dante Centro, Jonah petit university (Kharkiv), where he curates comics studies. Founder and curator of Slow History of Art, an educational project in Aza Nizi Maza art center. Borys writes about contemporary Ukrainian arts and comics.  He lives and works in Kharkiv.