罢颈迟濒别:听CamCREES/海角社区 Ukrainian Studies/Slavonic Studies - Public Lecture Series: 鈥業n memory of all who suffered and sacrificed鈥�: a conversation with Luke Hull, Production Designer of the HBO/Sky miniseries 鈥楥丑别谤苍辞产测濒鈥櫶�
Time and Date:听5:00听鈥� 8PM, Thursday 20 February 2020
笔濒补肠别:听Keynes Hall, King鈥檚 College, 海角社区, 海角社区
罢颈肠办别迟蝉:听The event is FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. Registration is required. 听Register at:听
Event Description:听海角社区 Ukrainian Studies and the Slavonic Studies Section invite you to a conversation with听Luke Hull, Production Designer of the acclaimed and award-winning HBO/Sky miniseries 鈥楥丑别谤苍辞产测濒鈥� (2019)听written by Craig Mazin and directed by John Renck.
Lauded as 鈥渂rilliantly structured and anchored by great performances鈥澨�鈥楥丑别谤苍辞产测濒鈥�听tells the story of the cataclysmic nuclear meltdown that took place on 26th April, 1986 at the No. 4 reactor in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant located about 50km north of Kyiv, Ukraine鈥檚 capital. Chernobyl, the world's worst nuclear disaster, exposed the inadequacies of the one-party Soviet system and contributed to the transformation and collapse of Soviet society. The HBO/Sky miniseries takes the story of Chernobyl and makes it relatable; it exposes the human element involved in both the making of the disaster and in the efforts to contain it. It makes the dangers of nuclear power palpable through smelted graphite, festering wounds, the hollowness of landscapes, and the trials of survival. It also makes tangible the perils of cover-ups, of fake news and of the manipulation of facts.听
鈥楥丑别谤苍辞产测濒鈥�听has been awarded 10 Emmys and 2 Golden Globes; one of the Emmys went to Luke Hull (Production Designer), Karen Wakefield (Art Director) and Claire Levinson-Gendler (Set Decorator) for 鈥極utstanding Production Design for a narrative period or fantasy programme鈥�. As production designer, Luke Hull was responsible for the visual look of the miniseries 鈥� for visually telling the story of Chernobyl. He accomplished this with such accuracy and authenticity that the series has been hailed as the best representation of 1980鈥檚 Soviet reality ever produced in Western or Russian television or film. Viewers watching the series are transported into the world of 1980鈥檚 Ukraine, Belarus and Moscow. Clothing, thick framed glasses, prams, concrete slab buildings, grimy apartment interiors and dingy corridors, grand hallways and imposing offices of bureaucrats, numerous doors guarded by countless administrators, stark hospital rooms, rudimentary equipment, the sounds of sirens and helicopters, abandoned villages, are just some of the elements that allow viewers to travel back in time into the Soviet past that Chernobyl helped destroy.
Join us to hear Luke Hull explain just what is involved in recreating the worst nuclear meltdown and Soviet reality for film. After a few introductory remarks, the evening will take the format of a Q&A session.听 Wine and soft drinks will be served from 17.00- 17.30, preceding the event.
