A movie crew took benefit of the Venice Movie Competition highlight Wednesday and wore clothes on its prestigious crimson carpet embroidered with the distances from the Lido to numerous places the place Russians are holding Ukrainian prisoners.
Their documentary Songs of Gradual Burning Earth, directed by Olha Zhurba, celebrated its world premiere within the Out of Competitors strand.
Each bit of clothes, made in collaboration with Ukrainian multidisciplinary artist and designer Alisa Liubomska, featured embroidery carrying eight names of totally different detention websites and their respective distances in kilometers from the Lido. “Each of these names symbolizes the lives of thousands of Ukrainian men and women,” the group mentioned.
“We wanted to remind people of the horrific conditions in which detainees are held, the illegitimate trials and fabricated charges, the torture, and the deaths,” mentioned Zhurba. “About everything that Russia, as a terrorist state, is doing with impunity to individuals who should never have been there in the first place. It is a huge tragedy very few people abroad know about. Those responsible for these actions must be held accountable.”
Songs of Gradual Burning Earth, Zhurba’s sophomore feature-length documentary, is an audiovisual diary documenting Ukraine’s immersion into the warfare, filmed over the primary two years of the full-scale Russian invasion.
The movie is a mosaic of landscapes, folks, occasional conversations, sounds and silences, progressively displaying the tragic normalization of warfare in society.
Songs of Gradual Burning Earth is produced by Darya Bassel for Ukrainian manufacturing firm Moon Man in co-production with Anne Köhncke (Denmark), co-founder of the six-time Oscar-nominated manufacturing firm Remaining Minimize for Actual (The Act of Killing, Flee) and Kerstin Übelacker for We Have a Plan (Sweden), ARTE France, and Movie i Skåne. Filmotor is dealing with gross sales.
In the course of the preparation, the movie group consulted with the Heart for Civil Liberties and The Coordination Headquarters for the Remedy of Prisoners of War.
Ukrainian manufacturers Tamar Keburia, Kachorovska, Andreas Moskin, Why Me and Knitel supplied clothes for the marketing campaign.
