Film Undone - Buchvorstellung, Filmvorführungen und Gespräche

Film Undone brings together artists, filmmakers, curators, researchers and archivists to present unmade and unfinished films, film ideas realized in non-film media and films that remained unseen in their planned form and time. An event in Berlin (2023) and a book publication (2024) were dedicated to a cautious approach to individual projects and reflected on the importance of primary materials before and after the film. Bringing them together as "Elements of a Latent Cinema" opens up a space to consider cases from different political geographies and historical moments in relation to each other and to think about the invisible of cinema in terms other than deficit-oriented categories such as failure, loss and incompleteness. Latency marks a persistent potentiality of things to change their state, to affect us and to set us in motion. The contributions to Film Undone at the dokumentarfilmwoche hamburg deal with the role of states and their institutions in preventing films from being made. Olexii Kuchanskyi will present her research on the Kyiv School of Popular Science Film, an informal film movement within the state studio Kyivnaukfilm, whose experiments in film pedagogy and institutional reorganization were stopped by the Soviet authorities (11 am). The screening of 'Where Russia Ends' will be followed by a discussion with Philipp Goll, who conducted research for the film. Tara Najd Ahmadi will present the film 'The Newborns' (1.30 pm), whose "postponed spectatorship" she will discuss in the context of her research on the non-completion of artistic works in revolutionary times at a presentation at the HFBK Hamburg the day before (22.4.).

Afterwards

Where Russia Ends

Oleksiy Radynski, UA 2024, 25 min, Ukrain. OmeU

In the 1980s, Ukrainian filmmakers undertook expeditions to Siberia. Their forgotten film reels were rediscovered in Kyiv during the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022. They are the starting point for a film essay that questions resource exploitation, environmental destruction and the ongoing oppression and extermination of indigenous peoples in the colonies of the Russian empire.