Слезы останутся
Tears will remain
Bakhmut, a small city in East of Ukraine, becomes an example for the dichotomy between the Soviet past and the (western) future. The precarious, war-driven landscape and the dreams of financial stability dissolve in the remains of the leisure culture from the past.
13 min. , Ukraine , 2022
Film made by LERI MATEHHA Research in collaboration with STAS MENDZELEVSKYI DoP VADYM ILKOV Music ROMAIN FREQUENCY With VLADIMIR KARAPUNIN STAS MENDZELEVSKYI MASHA VUSHEDSKAYA ROSTYSLAV SOSNOVYI Voice-Over SOPHIE NAUPHAL
National Premiere:
Festivals(selection):Film Festival Cottbus (2022) KFFK(2022) International Short Film Week Regensburg(2023)
A visual collage of Ukrainian avant-garde sculptures, Soviet social-realist monuments, drunk animals, sparkling wine, mummies and even a wailing wall. What is a real memory and what is a decorative object of bad metaphysics? Being treated as a cultural colony of a bigger empire- is a commemoration even possible- or is history just a background to take pictures?