International Premiere
The camera moves through the Kherson Museum of Local Lore, which held Southern Ukraine’s largest and oldest collection of antiquities until it was looted by Russian occupational forces in 2022.
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Clemens Poole
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Credits & Director
Producer
Andrii Lytvynenko
Screenwriter
Yarema Malashchuk, Roman Khimei
Cinematography
Yarema Malashchuk, Roman Khimei
Editor
Yarema Malashchuk, Roman Khimei
Roman Khimei & Yarema Malashchuk
Collaborating at the edge of visual art and cinema since 2013, Kyiv-based artists and filmmakers, Roman Khimei and Yarema Malashchuk graduated as cinematographers from the Institute of Screen Arts in Kyiv, Ukraine. Focusing on the role of the extra, their works engage with imperialist mythologies. They were awarded the main award of the Pinchuk Art Centre Prize (2020) and VISIO Young Talent Acquisition Prize (2021).
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