Laktionova
Director, Editor, Visual artist
Territory of empty windows
IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14163858/?ref_=nm_knf_t_1
Documentary Film
Ukraine, 2020
10 minutes
World War II and the plant caused my mother's family to move to Mariupol. The war with Russia and the environmental consequences of the plant's operation play a key role in its future life.
Credits
director: Zoya Laktionova
producer: Zoya Laktionova, Anna Diskant
photography: Zoya Laktionova
editing: Zoya Laktionova
sound: Andrew Borysenko
The film was created as part of the #brüderfasht project with the support of the German Embassy in Ukraine.
Curators: Lisa Herman, Maria Lanko
Watch online:
DaFilms: https://dafilms.com/film/16600-territory-of-empty-windows
Takflix: https://www.takflix.com/en/films/territory-empty-windows
Festivals
2023 - Tampere Film Festival (Finland)
2022 - Vienna Shorts, Vienna (Austria)
2022 - In Short, Europe Film Festival, London (UK)
2022 - Encounters Film Festival, Bristol (UK)
2022 - Kutaisi International Short Film Festival (Georgia)
2022 - Marienbad Film Festival, Mariánské Lázně (Czech)
2022 - ALLORA, Puglia (Italy)
2022 - UKRAЇNA! Festival filmowy, Warsaw (Poland)
2021 - Docudays UA - International Competition Program DOCU / SHORT, Kyiv (Ukraine)
2021 - Molodist Kyiv International Film Festival - National Competition Short Film, Kyiv (Ukraine)
2021 - MakeDox Creative Documentary Film Festival, Skopje, (North Macedonia)
2021 - Kinosaray Positive Film Festival - A special prize from the Ji.hlava Documentary Film Festival in the Czech Republic (Ukraine)
2021 - OKO international ethnographic film festival (Ukraine) - National Competition Short Film, (Ukraine)
2021 - WIZ-ART LISFF , Lviv(Ukraine)
2021 - 4:3 int’l short film festival - National Competition Short Film, Ivano-Frankivsk (Ukraine)
2021 - Ukrainian Film Festival Berlin (Germany)
2021 - East Silver Market at Ji.hlava IDFF (Czech)
2021 - МІСТ KINOFEST franco-ukrainian short film festival - Grand Prix in documentary competition
Awards
2021 - Kinosaray Positive Film Festival - A special prize from the Ji.hlava Documentary Film Festival in the Czech Republic (Ukraine)
2021 - МІСТ KINOFEST franco-ukrainian short film festival - Grand Prix in documentary competition
Exhibitions
2024 - Between Farewell and Return, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv (Ukraine)
2022 - "A War in the Distance. Prologue. An Embattled Ukraine in Video Art and Film", Neue Galerie Graz (Austria)
2022 - Ukrainian-Georgian Contemporary Art Exhibition "Tomorrow", Literature Museum, Tbilisi (Georgia)
2021 - MUHi Exhibition of the finalists of the competition of young Ukrainian artists, M17 galery, Kyiv (Ukraine)
2020 - #bruederschaft hybrid offline (KINO42) and online, Kyiv (Ukraine)
Selected screenings
2023 -“Mariupol: Future in the Past”, Riga (Latvia)
2023 - The Infinity of War, Paris (France)
2022 - The Deutsche Kinemathek – Museum für Film und Fernsehen
2022 - Barcelona, (Spain) - "My childhood is in the city that no longer exists"
2022 - Amsterdam, (Netherlands) - "No one will say my words for me"
2022 - ACUD STUDIO, Berlin (Germany) - Sensory Visions, Micro-Histories / Film screening Emergency Gathering
2022 - Stadtkino, Vienna (Austria) - #WeStandWithUkraine - Screening: The Earth Is Blue as an Orange + Shorts from Mariupol
2022 - Burg Kino, Vienna (Austria)
2022 - Acud Macht neu, Berlin (Germany) - Ukraine. Art, video and poetry benefit event
2022 - Supernova Cinema, Narva (Estonia) - The East. Documentary Shorts. Film Screenings in Support of Ukraine
2022 - Microscope Gallery, New York (USA) - https://microscopegallery.com/mariupol-i-love-you/
2022 - Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen, Innsbruck (Austria) - https://www.buchsenhausen.at/en/event/where-to-go
2022 - General Alert. Wars that Have Never Ended, Vienna (Austria)
Publications
Kleine Zeitung - Steirischer Herbst zeigt Film- und Videokunst zum Krieg in der Ukraine