To delve into these questions, Film Comment editors Clinton Krute and Devika Girish invited scholars Anastasiya Osipova (founder and editor of Cicada Press) and Lukas Brasiskis to the podcast. Lukas, a curator at e-flux, recently programmed films by the young Ukrainian artists Piotr Armianovski and Mykola Ridnyi as a fundraiser event. With these two works as a starting point, Osipova and Brasiskis go deep on the cinema of Ukraine—from the archival documentaries and searing fictions of Sergei Loznitsa, to the work of Sergei Parajanov, Larisa Shepitko, and more—and what it reveals about the current political moment. The two also discuss ongoing efforts by the Dovzhenko Film Center to protect Ukrainian cinema. See below for a list of resources, links, and suggestions for donations.
Links & Things Donate: A Letter for Ukraine: Resources and Suggestions for Donations at e-flux Ukrainian Film Archives Donation Fund The Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Centre The Docudays UA festival’s Emergency Fund for Filmmakers in Wake of Ukraine War Watch and read: No! No! No!: Ukrainian Artists Films Mykola Ridnyi’s Armed and Dangerous Project Izolyatsia, an art center in exile In Isolation: Dispatches from Occupied Donbass by Stanislav Aseyev Stop-Zemlia (Kateryna Gornostai, 2021) Donbass (Sergei Loznitsa, 2018) Maidan (Sergei Loznitsa, 2014) Babi Yar. Context (Sergei Loznitsa, 2021), screening March 20 at the Museum of the Moving Image before opening at Film Forum. Babi Yar: A Document in the Form of a Novel (1966) by Anatoly Kuznetsov—Anastasia Osipova: “This is a book that everyone should read to understand the history of Babi Yar, and should be a prerequisite reading for watching Loznitsa’s film.” The films of Larisa Shepitko “Notes on Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors” by Sergei Parajanov The White Bird Marked with Black (Yuri Ilyenko, 1971) Cyborgs: Heroes Never Die (Akhtem Seitablaiev, 2017)
