This film is dedicated to the iconic rock band Kino. It consists of four music videos of the band that are connected by a single storyline. The film has acquired a cult following and influenced the subsequent career of the band’s frontman Viktor Tsoi.
Amateur footage from the family archive of physicist and engineer Mykola Peretiatko. On the 9th of May, a couple hangs out in the city outskirts, visits the sites of armed defence of Kyiv, greets the tank drivers on the highway, and looks into the sky with soaring paratroopers.
A sketch about the place of the television in an ordinary Soviet citizen’s life and on the enormous growth of demand on TV sets before a screening of the TV show dedicated to the Day of Laughter.
An animated user’s guide to Soviet children’s analog game, which suddenly turns into an experimental animation à la abstract films by Hans Richter or Walter Ruttmann.
An animated film that deconstructs and exposes the exhausted Soviet clichés in search of truth, which is traditional for the glasnost era.
Sergei Parajanov’s uncompleted film. The film studio decided to stop the production of this “basically impressionist movie imbued with pacifism”. All that was left is 15 minutes of test footage.
For this coursework, legendary filmmaker Leonid Osyka was publicly accused of “existentialism”, “decadence”, and “plagiarism from the New Wave”. A short poetic parable about the beginning of human life.
Ironic montage advertisement from the legendary amateur film studio KhPI-Film, which surpassed the leading Hollywood studios and even was included in George Sadoul’s Histoire générale du cinéma.
An absurd amateur film shot by students on the central streets of Lviv in the late 1980s. The mood for change is already in the air, behaviour in the urban space is becoming more relaxed, and balloon jeans and oversized coats become trendy.
A city symphony, whose protagonist is autumn Kyiv in the middle of the 1960s. The colours of the city are captured on the go, highlighted with jazz accents by composer Volodymyr Huba.
