Кино Fragile memory Kyiv 2023-11-19 18:35:00

Memory is always fragile, both individual and collective. And in our virtualized and globalized age, it seems as if it is slipping through our fingers and leaving behind not hard, resistant fragments, but volatile traces that change shape with the slightest interaction with the environment. However, forgetting can be no less difficult and painful than remembering and recalling. It is worth looking for a balance between these processes, as well as within them. Then they are transformed into "reflecting" and "letting go," which also testify to memory, only more ecological in relation to its carriers.

Cinema is a form of active memory, an attempt to capture the redundancy of certain experiences, to reactivate and work through them. It is a therapeutic practice for all the players in the space that Film creates around itself — those who create, those who watch, and those who are just planning to join it.

The works included in this program are united by the theme of memory, but each of them speaks about it in a different way: some authors focus on their own history, while others combine the individual and the collective to better understand each of them through the interaction of these dimensions. Origin and roots, family and native space are aspects of existence within which filmmakers work with the experience of remembering. It is very vulnerable to the world of pandemics, wars and big data. This gives the films a special sentimentality that is unshakable until the last seconds of the runtime.