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Endowed Scholar-in-Residence Movie: Pouta/Walking Too Fast (Adults & Students)
This event is being presented without charge, but registration is required. The movie is open to the community (adults and students).
"Pouta/Walking Too Fast" is a Film by Radim Špaček, was the major film of the 2010 Czech cinema, and the most critically acclaimed Czech film of the last two decades. Set in 1982, in the grey, dull timelessness of the Communist regime, the film tells the story of Antonin Rusnak, agent of the almighty secret State Police who suddenly feels "breathless," much like the protagonist of the famous 1960 Godard movie, getting bored and disgusted with everything around himself, including his work and family life. On the job, spying on young, innocent Klara, he becomes obsessed with her; although, he knows all too well he could never be with her. His burning obsession turns him against himself as well as against the system and the world. With its omnipresent sense of anxiety and menace, the story is not a political one; in spite of its setting, it speaks a universal message.
In the 2010 - 2011 academic year, the Endowed Scholar-in-Residence Program is bringing Petr Onufer, world scholar, translator and journalist, to Bishop's and the community. Petr Onufer (born 1976) is a Czech critic, translator and journalist. He studied Czech and English at Charles University in Prague and the University of Texas at Austin. Petr currently works as the editor-in-chief of Plus Publishing, an imprint of the largest Czech publishing group Albatros Media, and contributes to Revolver Revue, a leading Czech literary journal. His translations include novels by William Faulkner, Jack Kerouac and Michael Chabon; poetry collections by Richard Wilbur and Robert Frost (forthcoming), books of literary criticism and theory by Terry Eagleton and Wolfgang Iser. Petr is the editor of the first Czech anthology of American literary criticism, published in 2010. Searching for Contexts of Anglo-American Literature is Onufer's most recently published book of essays on American literature which will be published by Charles University Press in 2011.
The Endowed Scholar-in-Residence Program at Bishop's is designed to bring leaders in the fields of science, arts, humanities, and social sciences to the campus for a period of residency in order to inspire students and faculty towards the highest ideals of academic and artistic pursuit.
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LocationThe Bishop's School, Michael & Marlene Teitelman Science Center
7607 La Jolla Boulevard
La Jolla, CA 92037
United States
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