On August 20 at 6:30 PM, we will watch two more films by Kharkiv artists Andriy Rachynskyi and Daniil Revkovskyi — “Sky. Invasion” and “Civilians. Invasion.” Both videos immerse us in the experience of the first days and months of a full-scale war, capturing events through the prism of personal and collective testimony.
“Sky. Invasion” (2022) is a film of the sky in the first days of the war. The names repeated in the video are Ivan, Zhenya, Svetlana… These are intercepted messages from Russian military operators, transmitted in code in 2022 via the Soviet radio station “UVB-76”, which has been operating since the Cold War. “A kind of example of the primitiveness of their work. Against the backdrop of phosphorus bombs and missiles,” comments Nikita Kadan.
“Civilians. Invasion” (2023-2024) is a work created on the basis of more than two thousand private videos shared by people who survived the first months of the war in Mariupol. These are not the videos that became widely known and made it into the news or social networks. These are unique, less public testimonies — fragments of personal stories. The artists processed the material, selected and chronicled it, but it is important that they did not shoot these frames themselves. There is no outside observer here — this is the testimony of people who voluntarily recorded their experience in the form in which they were ready for it. The film plunges the viewer into trauma: the post-New Year mood is replaced by the harsh reality of the occupation — simultaneously with attempts to unite and survive, cynical looting takes place. This video document is not just a recording of a moment, but a deep experience of a collective catastrophe.
The first video work lasts 10 min. 10 sec., the second — 56 min. 40 sec.
WHEN: Wednesday, August 20, 6:30 PM
WHERE: DCCC Cinema (first floor), Krutohirny Uzviz 21a, Dnipro. Entrance through the glass sliding doors from the side of Uspenskaya Square
The cinema space can accommodate 50 people, so entrance is only possible upon registration and a free donation (before the screening): https://forms.gle/2x1Pc6Z3a9yBSBM6A
Please fill out the form if you are sure that you will be able to attend the screening.
Attention: Russian may be heard in the video works!
Design: Alla Sorochan
The film screening program is implemented within the framework of the exhibition “Looking into the Gaps II” by curator Nikita Kadan.
The exhibition project “Looking into the Gaps” was initiated by Voloshyn Gallery in 2024. The exhibition was implemented in the Artsvit gallery and Dnipro Center for Contemporary Culture in collaboration with Voloshyn Gallery (Kyiv) and Assortment Room (Ivano-Frankivsk).
