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 Element SI (development)

Dir. Zoya Laktionova

Duration: 75’

Delivery: DCP, 2K Color

Sound: 5K

Language: Ukrainian

Logline: The life of an atom mirrors that of Stas, a self-taught musician from an occupied mining town in Ukraine, showing why this rare-earth-rich region is a site of struggle.

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Synopsis: Told from the perspective of an atom since its birth at the Big Bang, the film unfolds as a science-based story about the creation of the Universe and the movement of energy. This cosmic view intersects with a geopolitical reality shaped by the struggle for human and energy resources, including rare-earth metals that determine the energy of the future and control of power. At the center is Stas, a self-taught musician from an occupied mining town in Donbas. He invents a musical form in which a drummer — the only person on stage — generates enough energy to charge thousands of people, moving like atoms colliding inside the Large Hadron Collider.

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     Zoya Laktionova is a filmmaker, editor, visual artist  - was born in Mariupol (Ukraine) in 1984.  She uses moving images, photography, and texts in her works. In her artistic practice, she adopts micro-history, auto-ethnography and creative storytelling to unfold the complexity of greater events.

(c) Zoya Laktionova 2022

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