Laktionova
Director, Editor, Visual artist
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.

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.