Songs of Slow Burning Earth
SYNOPSIS
An audiovisual diary of Ukraine’s immersion into the abyss of the first two years of Russia’s full invasion, made up of places, occasional characters, rare dialogues, intraframe sounds and silences which, when put together, capture the chronology of how the war became normalised. Against the backdrop of this (meta)physical landscape of collective disaster.
Spanish premiere. Q&A online after the film.
Why must you see it?
A work that imposes silence over the noise of history and forces one to feel the war from within. With direct images and without explanations, it elegantly and ethically portrays the situation of people living in a country immersed in violence and uncertainty, making the viewer actively participate in the interpretation. It reminds us that the normalization of horror does not exempt from responsibility: it is an act of poetic memory and resistance. A testimony that stays in the retina long after the screen has gone dark.
Andrea Guzman
Olha Zhurba
Olha Zhurba is a Ukrainian film director, editor and screenwriter. Her short fiction film DAD’S SNEAKERS (2021) premiered at the Locarno FF and later won awards at many international festivals. DAD’S SNEAKERS was a candidate for a nomination at the European Film Awards 2022. OUTSIDE (2022) is her debut documentary, which premiered at CPH:DOX and HOT DOCS.
Year: 2024
Country: Ukraine, France, Sweden
Length: 93 min
Language: Ukranian
Subtitles: Spanish, English
Director: Olha Zhurba
Production: Darya Bassel (Moon Man / Ukraine)
Editor: Michael Aaglund
