Laktionova
Remember the Smell of Mariupol
Experimental film
Ukraine, Austria, 2022
4 minutes 33 seconds
Credits
Shooting, editing: Zoya Laktionova
Producer: Zoya Laktionova
Text translation: Julia Kolesnik
Artist and photographer Zoya Laktionova talks about her 2 months of experience abroad in a state of two realities. The video interacts with two landscapes in the same space of the video work. The work uses archival family photos of the artist and texts written in the first weeks of the war. The work absorbs one landscape into another, but it is difficult to understand what kind of landscape this act carries out.
Garry Kraievets, curator
Synopsis:
Director Zoya Laktionova talks about her 2 months of experience abroad in a state of two realities. Her documentary essay interacts with two landscapes in the same space of the video work. The work uses archival family photos of the artist and texts written in the first weeks of the war. The work absorbs one landscape into another, but it is difficult to understand what kind of landscape this act carries out.
Logline:
Full-scale war and forced evacuation force the director to find herself between two worlds: in one, the city of her childhood and people are destroyed, in the other, nothing happens, but any landscapes begin to resemble home.
Exhibitions
2023 - Videocity St. Pölten – City exhibition trail “Utopia Today“ (Austria)
2023 - Sun, sun, illuminate the shadows!, Lisbon (Portugal)
2023 - Motorenhalle, Dresden (Germany)
2022-23 - Zoya Laktionova: Remember the Smell of Mariupol, Jozef Kollár Gallery, Banská Štiavnica (Slovakia)
2022 - VILLA MÜLLER, Feldkirch (Austria)
2022 - Salzburg Summer Academy, (Austria)
2022 - Give Me Tomorrow, Corner of Conceptica, Lisbon (Portugal)
2022 - Give Me Tomorrow, Mitchell Art Gallery, Edmonton (Canada)
Filmfestivals
2023 - Go Short – International Short Film Festival, Nijmege (Netherlands)
2023 - Sehsüchte - International Student Film Festival, Potsdam (Germany)
2022 - Ukrainian Film Festival Berlin (Germany)
2022 - Filma. Feminist Film Festival (Ukraine)
2022 - Wiz-Art Lviv International Short Film Festival (Ukraine)
Screenings
2023 - MUMOK, Vienna (Austria)
2023 - Let's talk about something else, Barriera, Turin (Italy)
2023 - Remember the Smell of Mariupol - Oldenburgisches Staatsteater (Germany)
2023 - Re : covering horizons, Bremen (Germany)
2023 - 365 Days of full-scale War in Ukraine - Visual Diary, Innsbruck (Austria)
2023 - Her Docs Forum, Warsaw (Poland)
2022 - Cité internationale des arts, Paris (France)
Publications
2023 - Notebook, Issue 2 - Ukrainian poet Natalka Bilotserkivets and filmmaker Zoya Laktionova talk about life and art during wartime. Printed magazine. Language: english.
2023 - MUBI | In Conversation with Natalka Biloserkivets and Zoya Laktionova
2023 - Artalk.cz - Zoya Laktionova v Galérii Jozefa Kollára
2022 - A conversation with Zoya Laktionova - ON MARIUPOL, MEMORY AND LIFE IN TWO REALITIES