Liturgy of Anti-Tank Obstacles
12’ Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk Ukraine 2022
Reality in Ukraine was divided into two periods - before the war and after. Every citizen tries to be useful in this national resistance. Ukrainians change their professions and adapt to the needs of wartime. In art workshops, sculptors make anti-tank obstacles. Silent figures of Ukrainian figures, angels, Cossacks and multiple copies of Jesus Christ, like a terracotta army, froze in anticipation of new creations. Masters weld metal defenses for the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Her place: Marharyta
7’ Olha Koval(Tuharinova) Ukraine 2020
One episode of the documentary web-series about professions previously prohibited for women in Ukraine. The film captured one day from the life of the Azov Steel Plant crane operator Marharyta.
Rain Project
23’ Oleg Chorny Ukraine 2016
Mariupol, Donetsk region, Ukraine. 20km from the engagement line between government troops and combined Russian-separatist forces. Gamlet Zinkivsky, a painter, comes to the city to make a series of street art works in the urban space.
Remember the Smell of Mariupol
5’ Zoya Laktionova Ukraine 2022
Director Zoya Laktionova talks about her 2 months of experience abroad in a state of two realities. Her documentary essay interacts with two landscapes in the same space of the video work. The work uses archival family photos of the artist and texts written in the first weeks of the war. The work absorbs one landscape into another, but it is difficult to understand what kind of landscape this act carries out.
What Shall We Do with These Buildings?
28’ Jonathan Ben-Shaul Ukraine 2022
"What Shall We Do With These Buildings?" is a documentary-dance film which explores the legacy of Soviet architecture in Kharkiv, Ukraine. The film was shot in September 2021, at a time when the prospect of a full-scale invasion from Russia seemed remote, but the ghost of its former rule remained written in concrete across the cityscape. The film platforms a divisive and open conversation about the city's Soviet buildings: What should be done with them? Should they be preserved, destroyed, repurposed? What power do they hold over the way people think and interact with their environment? Interwoven within this patchwork of opinion is another kind of exploration. Dance runs through the film in playful counterpoint, providing another language to articulate the ways in which buildings move bodies. Since the invasion, the film serves as a time capsule - a snapshot of an independent, hopeful Ukraine trying to find its feet, at a time when that independence has never been more threatened. It captures tensions embodied in social space right before the city descended into war, providing an insight into how Kharkiv was before the invasion; how much it has lost and stands to lose.
Ach so
3’ Polina Piddubna Ukraine 2022
Animated techno-punk opera: I rent a very small room in Berlin (which reminds me of a coffin) and have very strange dreams there. People are held in suspense for two years without knowing when will it all be over. The club is closed, the ambulance won't come and everything that's left to do is just walking around the city with your inner monsters.