Section: Spectrum

ZINEMA

ZINEMA

Kornii Hrytsiuk
UA/LU, 2024, 80 Min

Films can pave the way and provide justification for wars, reinforce prejudice and create images of fictitious enemies. With a compilation of excerpts from recent Russian genre films and TV series, Hritsyuks demonstrates how the media landscape has conveyed a view of mankind in which Russians are always the better people. Not least to fuel an imperial mentality. 

#doc #political #history

Performance

2024-11-09 | 13:00
Obenkino
2024-11-08 | 18:00
Kammerbühne

A blood-red Z is placed over the C in "Cinema": the letter symbolises the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine. ZINEMA speaks of how state propaganda is able to function with the help of the medium of film. When ethnic or national identities are ridiculed, for instance guest workers from other, often Caucasian former Soviet republics, or portrayed as a danger, as is the case with images of young Ukrainians waving swastika flags. In his apartment, constantly under threat from Russian missile attacks, Ukrainian director Kornii Hritsyuk reflects on modern Russian film history: Beginning under Putin's predecessor Boris Yeltsin, during the first Chechen war in 1994, state-supported mainstream cinema, sparing little by way of production costs and speaking the language of the man on the street, began to glorify the "special military operations" in Chechnya, Georgia and Syria. A recurring presence: Russian actor Mikhail Porochenko, protagonist of nationalist propaganda films, and also visitors at a shooting range in the so-called Donetsk People's Republic. Director Kornii Hritsyuk was a member of the FFC's Dialog Jury back in 2022.

Text: Wolfgang Hamdorf

08.11.2024 | 18:00 | Kammerbühne (original version with English subtitles + simultaneous translation into German)

09.11.2024 | 13:00 | Obenkino (original version with English subtitles)

Drehbuch
Kornii Hrytsiuk, Yevgeniya Kriegsheim
Schnitt
Oleksandr Vitraniuk, Kornii Hrytsiuk
Produzent
Yevgeniya Kriegsheim
Produktion
Think Tank Ukraine
Co-Produktion
Philippe Schockweiler, Kornii Hrytsiuk
Kornii Hrytsiuk

Kornii Hrytsiuk - Kornii Hrytsiuk is a Ukrainian director and screenwriter. He is the author of the documentary films EuroDonbas (2023), The Train: Kyiv - War (2020), and the first Ukrainian full length mockumentary 20/20 Deserted Country (2018).

He has participated in many international film festivals, such as Hot Docs (Canada), Molodist (Ukraine), Artdocfest (Latvia), FilmFestival Cottbus (Germany), and Man in Danger (Poland).

He is the showrunner of the audio series Kurenivka: The Story of the Kyiv Flood and The Pendulum: Life and Football of Valeriy Lobanovskyi on the Megogo OTT/VOD platform.

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