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- LOLI KALI SHUBA In 1991 we shot the documentary film "Widow-Street" (Ukrkinokhronika Film Studio), dedicated to a small Roma community in Transcarpathia (Zakarpatye). We worked in a big rush, while filming this short movie and in it, we showed portraits of easygoing, sincere and overall good people. Our characters were residents of this camp: a boy, a dancing girl with a fascinating name Prince, and others. Throughout this movie, you heard songs sung by a twelve year old resident of the camp Yura and Prince's mother Wilma. Due to our rush, we could not complete the translation of these songs. It was snowing upon our departure, and behind our bus we saw children running in the snow... The film "Loli kali shuba" is rather a cinematic essay on a voyage "twenty years later" to "old" places in hope to meet some of the characters of the first movie and finally find out what a twelve year old Yura and Wilma, dancing girl's mother, sung to us. Translated from "romany", "Loli kali shuba", means red-black winter coat. This is the name given by Roma kids from Transcarpathia (Zakarpatye) to a little insect: sunny (ladybug)... These kids, similar to all children around the world, take it in their palms and sing a nursery song: "ladybug, fly, fly to the sky"... And "sunny" spreads its wings and flies... Flies, of course, to "the sky"... While children grow up and become adults... That's all... Somehow, this little "sunny", flying off the children's palms to the sky, forever remains one of the most wonderful and touching images in our mind. It remains as a feeling of pleasure and heartache, pain and warmth... Red and black exist... Beauty exists...
- Excerpts from newsreels, propaganda films, TV shows and feature films that present a evocative portrait of Soviet life during the 1950s and the 1960s.
- Portraits of people who joined Ukraine's Maidan in 2004: their social status, their private life, their thoughts and hopes.
- ... It all started with a sudden feeling that something has permanently changed around us and in our life in the past 15 or 20 years. We have never noticed how the changes were taking place within our presence. As if we never have existed and there have never been all those years. The time of exposure is the life span of an object in frame. In this regard, any photo is not just two-dimensional graphic composition - it always has the third, temporal dimension, the temporal depth. A photo is a time carrier, a time vessel. It means - a vessel of memory... But whose memory?.. Of the Face or the Thing or the Landscape which are still on the photo?.. Of the Photographer?.. Having chosen photos as material of the film and memory as the theme, we inevitably find ourselves in a labyrinth of our own and the others' memories, of our own and the others' time being. And seeking for the escape we are becoming a part of this labyrinth and the material of the own film. This is a film about relationships that have developed between the Author and the Raw Material at the heart of his Creative Work to a point when the Material itself becomes the main character and the Author is compelled to become a part of the Material to keep a possibility of interacting with It on an equal footing.
- A story of the world famous choir "Shchedryk" as the film about happiness, childhood and growing-up.
- In the east of Ukraine lies Derzhprom, the House of State Industry. Built between 1925 and 1928, it was intended to embody the idea of Communism. Although it was a poster child for the avant-garde movement, now it seems almost forgotten. Derzhprom acts as a kind of time machine. Space becomes time here. The Building moves between classic, observational documentary and experimental cinema. With very little dialogue, it is rather a poem of moving images. Through the use of mixed materials, including archive films from the 1920s, it reflects on how past and present, movement and time are related to the static nature of architecture.