Ukraine | 2022 | Documentary | 70’ | Original Version with English Subtitles

A ‘Flying Saucer’ at Kyiv’s Lybidska train station has been a city’s important architectural mark for many decades – and is one of the architectural masterpieces of constructivism. Now, a ‘saucepan’ is at risk of being demolished and replaced by a trade center. An eminent architect Florian Yuriev combines music, colours and space in the buildings he contrived. It is also his past as a Gulag inmate that deeply influenced his personality and his heritage. The memories of former times entangle with the present-day challenges of constructing business in the capital of Ukraine, and with the fight against terminal illness: the mundane entangles with infinity.

Oleksiy Radynski is a filmmaker, writer and conceptual thinker. “Infinity according to Florian” is a tribute of one striking Kyiv-based artist to the other.