KRIEGSBILDER
UA/AT
screenings & talk
Kriegsbilder is a Vienna-based cultural initiative that focuses on presenting Ukrainian cultural and political contexts. The initiative was founded in March 2022 and has since organized hybrid events, creating spaces for community and solidarity and raising funds to help counter russian aggression against Ukraine. In its previous events, the initiative has collaborated with This Human World International Film Festival, Office Ukraine for the film screening at MuMOK, the Construction festival and Biorhythm project. With their music program Kriegsbilder is shedding light on alternative music and club culture in Ukraine.
Screenings:
Enthusiasm (Symphony of Donbas) / Entusiasm (Symfoniia Donbasu)
Non-fiction film, Year: 1930 Country: Ukrainian SSR, Studio: Ukrainfilm, Duration: 70 min, Director: Dziga Vertov, Cinematographer: Borys Tseitlin
The film Enthusiasm stands as an audiovisual symphony that delves into the industrial, agrarian, and cultural fabric of the Donbas region during the inaugural Soviet Five Year Plan. It spotlights anti-religious campaigns, propagandistic marches, and the vibrant athletic culture of its time, marking a significant milestone as the pioneering sound film in Ukrainian cinema.
Songs of Slow Burning Earth
Non-fiction film, Year: 2024, Country: Ukraine, Duration: 95 min, Director: Olha Zhurba, Cinematographer: Volodymyr Usyk, Viacheslav Tsvetkov, Misha Lubarsky, Sound: Pavlo Melnyk
Landscapes, occasional conversations and encounters, and sounds that weave in and out of the frame compose Songs of Slow Burning Earth. Captured in varying proximities to the frontline over two years, the audiovisual diary of Ukraine’s immersion into the abyss of total war traces the subtle changes in Ukrainian society. The ragged chords of panic and horror of the first weeks of the russian invasion slowly morph into the numb stillness of the acceptance of death and destruction, which eventually becomes the tragic normality for the local population, but just an afterthought for the rest of the world. Against the backdrop of the (meta)physical landscape of collective disaster, a new generation of Ukrainians aspires to imagine the future.
Both screenings will be accompanied by the discussion about sound in films and decolonisation practices afterwards.
WUK / Museumsraum rechts