The Two Russias : Leviathan and The Island

To anyone who thinks that the Lives of the Saints have little practical application to our everyday life, I humbly beg to differ. To prove my point, I would like to offer some personal reflections on the new Russian film Leviathan, a film that would seem to be almost irredeemably bleak. But if considered in…

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Byzanfest, an Orthodox short-film festival.

Chris Vlahonasios  is the founder and director of Byzanfest, the first online festival of Orthodox short films.  He is also a blogger at Orthodox Filmmakers and Artists.  I interviewed him about how all of this came about and about his view of the possible relationships between Orthodox arts and film.   Along the way one…

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