War and Cinema

Join us on e-flux Video & Film for the last day of War and Cinema, a six-part program of films, video works, and interviews put together by filmmaker Oleksiy Radynski as the second program in the online series Artist Cinemas.

War and Cinema has featured films by Yuriy Hrytsyna; Andriy Rachinskiy and Daniil Revkovskiy; Forensic Architecture; Yelizaveta Smith and Georg Genoux; Dana Kavelina; Oleksandr Steshenko, Kateryna Libkind, Pavlo Yurov, Roman Himey and Yarema Malaschuk; and interviews with the filmmakers by Oleksiy Radynski, Oleksiy Kuchansky, and Kateryna Libkind.

For this last day, all films featured in the program will be available again on Wednesday, July 29, from 12am to 11:59pm EST for a special repeat screening.

Stay tuned to Artist Cinemas for a new program of films and interviews starting August 19, convened by artist Jumana Manna.

Artist Cinemas presents War and Cinema

Yuriy Hrytsyna, Varta1, Lviv, Ukraine, 2015
64:05 minutes
With an interview with the filmmaker by Oleksiy Radynski

Andriy Rachinskiy and Daniil Revkovskiy, Labor Safety in the Region of Dnipropetrovsk, 2018
22 minutes
With an interview with the filmmakers by Oleksiy Radynski

Forensic Architecture, The Battle of Ilovaisk, 2018
8:57 minutes
With an interview with Forensic Architecture member Nicholas Zembashi by Oleksiy Radynski

Yelizaveta Smith and Georg Genoux, School #3, 2017
115 minutes
With an interview with filmmaker Yelizaveta Smith by Oleksiy Kuchanskyi

Dana Kavelina, Letter to a Turtledove, 2020
20:55 minutes
With an interview with the filmmaker by Oleksiy Kuchanskyi

Oleksandr Steshenko, Kateryna Libkind, Pavlo Yurov, Roman Himey, and Yarema Malaschuk, In Memory of Antonina Nikolayevna on Lost Love, 2018
30:30 minutes
With an interview with scriptwriter Oleksandr Steshenko by artist Kateryna Libkind

About the program
War and Cinema traces various cinematic engagements with the war raging in the Eastern margins of the European continent for over six years now—a war that was sparked by the military occupation of Crimea by the Russian military in spring 2014, and that subsequently consumed large swaths of the Donbass region in Eastern Ukraine. The program does not represent the fruits of the alleged “boom” in Ukrainian filmmaking that was observed, predictably, with the outbreak of war. Rather, it looks at the margins of image production in wartime. This program also strives to enable conversations between the films that do not necessarily belong to the same cinematic worlds—even if their country of origin remains the same. War and Cinema will run for six weeks from June 17 through July 29, 2020, screening a new film each week accompanied by an interview with the filmmaker(s). Throughout the duration of the program, more information on the films, their makers, and contexts will be published on the program convener’s telegram channel. 

War and Cinema is convened by Oleksiy Radynski.

About the series
Artist Cinemas is a new e-flux platform focusing on exploring the moving image as understood by people who make film. It is informed by the vulnerability and enchantment of the artistic process—producing non-linear forms of knowledge and expertise that exist outside of academic or institutional frameworks. It will also acknowledge the circles of friendship and mutual inspiration that bind the artistic community. Over time this platform will trace new contours and produce different understandings of the moving image. 

For more information, contact program [​at​] e-flux.com.