Marina Lyapina

This is a documentary story of love, a story about the long-distance relationship that started in September 2014, while war in Ukraine and the economic crisis in Greece were taking a dramatic turn.

Industrial space is conceptually filled; it generates and influences the character and content of the image.

The characters in the film live in the real world, but their imagination, which recreates their fears and doubts, exists alongside it, sometimes crossing the line.

Zo is a former soccer player. After leaving sports, she has to fight for survival and to define her new self.

The typical living blocks – Troyeshchyna in Kyiv. The neighborhood’s biggest pulsing arteries, Tsvetayeva and Mayakovsky Streets, were constructed almost simultaneously several years before the Soviet Union collapse. The combination of archival footage and today’s shootings brings up the almost 100 years of history – from right after the revolution, in 1918, when Mayakovsky starts to make films, until the modern day. Or in the intersection on the two streets there is a story of the masses whose poet Mayakovsky was; the masses who ousted Tsvetayeva from their concrete towers. In any case, it a magic of the closest things that the pedestrians wouldn’t pay attention to.

The performance is dedicated to the anniversary of the tragic events that took place in February 2014 at the Institutskaja street (Kiev, Ukraine), during which in a few days more than fifty people were killed. The clashes occured between protesters against the government and representatives of law enforcement agencies.

Phronesis combines a capability of rational thinking, with a type of knowledge. On the one hand it requires the capability to rationally consider actions which can deliver desired effects. It is not simply a skill, but also the ability to reflect upon and determine good ends consistent with the aim of living well overall.