SONGS OF SLOW BURNING EARTH

Synopsis

An audiovisual diary of Ukraine’s immersion into the abyss of the first two years of Russia's full-scale invasion, made up of places, occasional characters, rare dialogues, intraframe sounds and silences which, when put together, capture the chronology of how the war became normalised. Against the backdrop of this (meta)physical landscape of collective disaster, a new generation of Ukrainians aspires to imagine the future.

Statement of the director

“When they ask me
what war is
I’ll answer without hesitation:
it’s names.”

‘A thread of sky’ from the book Poems from the Loophole by Maksym ‘Dali’ Kryvtsov, a Ukrainian poet and soldier, who was killed on a battlefield on 7 January 2024. He was 33 years old.