Anna Kryvenko

How does it feel like to become an occupier without your own intentions? With known but also never published archival materials from the whole Europe and Russia we tell a family story of the director Anna Kryvenko about how the big politics is destroying the lives of ordinary people. Just couple of years ago the director found a family secret of her grand-uncle who came to occupy Czechoslovakia in 1968 as a Soviet soldier. When searching for grand-uncle's story the author touches themes like fragmentation of personal and national memory, inherited guilt, interpretation of history, media manipulation, relationship towards nowadays Russia, but also relationship of Czechs and Slovaks towards foreigners - themes very actual in our times.

A film about the complicated friendship of three adolescent girls, two swimming pools, and one malicious act of revenge.

Media experiment in which a smorgasbord of catastrophic images is occupied by an auditory mindfulness exercise.

The revolution on Kyiv‘s Maidan as a close-up of the city without any broader perspective. Recycled amateur footage from the internet offers an ironic commentary on the spectacular narratives by which the media described events in Ukraine at the turn of the year. Randomly selected and shown out of context, the various sequences break down the events into individual, slow-motion fragments before reassembling them in an emotional collage of incomprehensible unrest and random moments on the street.

In this evolving three-part video project, I'm delving into the intricate theme of empathy within the realm of social and news media. The work aims to dissect the impact of media competition in portraying death, a phenomenon that fosters a perception of an increasingly violent modern world—though, in reality, this may not be entirely accurate.