flowers beyond the dark
“Flowers Beyond the Dark” is a documentary film that portrays a spatiotemporal transformation of Ukrainian people, architecture, and nature – from petrification to the revival of life – is captured during the occupation and after the liberation of the Kyiv region in the early stages of the full-scale invasion.
Amid the chaos of russia’s invasion of Ukraine, an artist couple separated by occupation, a priest risking his life to care for the burial of casualties, and brave warriors who stand to protect their families and country — all united by faith, hope, and love.
FULL-LENGTH DOCUMENTARY
Ukraine, USA
Featured: My Childhood film trilogy
International Cinema Trilogy “My Childhood” – three short films depicting the life stories of three boys. Based on the work of writers from Ukraine (Stepan Vasylchenko), Georgia (Nodar Dumbadze), and Italy (Nino Palumbo).
The path of travelling capella. Executed voices.
The interactive concert tour map of the first travelling capella of Dniprosoiuz (now called The National Choir of Ukraine “DUMKA”) which took place in 1920. Based on the personal diary by Stepan Vasylchenko who accompanied the tour.
collaborations
THE HISTORY OF THE CRIMEAN TATARS
First Ukrainian audiobook “Worlds. Nations. The History of the Crimean Tatars” based on the unique printed four-volume edition by the historian Valeriy Vozgrin (25.06.1939 – 09.01.2020).
MetaMisto
In 2017, the NGO "Congress of Cultural Activists" as part of the project "Metamisto: East" within the program "City Code" carried out cultural mapping of six frontline cities in the Eastern Ukraine, Ukraine-Russia war conflict zone (Bakhmut, Lysychansk, Severodonetsk, Dobropillya, Kostiantynivka, Pokrovsk). The project allowed for discovery of everyday life of cultural and educational institutions and unveiled how the citizens cope with living in the war zone reality.
Dobryi Bober Records
Dobryi Bober Records is the remote recording / composing / producing studio that creates music for social projects, underground musicians and bands, movie projects.