Ukrainian Artists’ Films
Admission starts at $5
March 10, 2022, 7pm
Brooklyn, NY 11205
USA
Join us at e-flux Screening Room for a screening of Piotr Armianovski’s Mustard in the Gardens (2018), and Mykola Ridnyi’s NO! NO! NO! (2017).
Piotr Armianovski’s and Mykola Ridnyi’s films explore the traces of the post-2014 Russian-Ukrainian war that have been imprinted into the fabric of the everyday in the Eastern part of Ukraine. Rather than directly addressing the conflict’s atrocities, both films focus on the emotions, uncertainties, and ruptures that the extended state of war has inflicted on the everyday lives of young Ukrainians.
Piotr Armianovski, Mustard in the Gardens (2018, 37 minutes)
Olena is going home, to the village where she spent her childhood, now part of the “grey zone” conflict line of the Russian-Ukrainian war. In the garden, her brother has planted mustard to prevent weeds from getting into their neighbors’ garden. Olena lies down in the prickly grass and recalls how big and tasty the apricots, the cherries, the pears used to be…
Mykola Ridnyi, NO! NO! NO! (2017, 22 minutes)
The main protagonists of this film are young people from Kharkiv, a city located in the Eastern part of Ukraine, whose early twenties coincided with the breakout of the war in the neighboring region of Donbass. An LGBT activist and poet, a fashion model, a group of street artists, a creator of a computer game—all of them are artists or working in the creative industries, typical of the peaceful life of a big city. However, the proximity to the war affects each of the characters and their activities. The protagonists react and reflect political events through their specific relationships to social media and to the urban space around them.
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