DO{K}VIRA (Trust Cut): Ethics, Politics, and Aesthetics in Documentary Filmmaking
Thursday, April 20, 2023 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm CEST/GMT+2Online
DO{K}VIRA (Trust Cut) is an online art exhibition curated by Valentina Petrova and Yulia Serdyukova and composed mostly of raw video and audio files from Oksana Kazmina's archive collected during six years of her work on the feminist documentary project «На глибині» ("Underwater"). Exploring three layers of 'reality' – the reality of life, the reality captured by a camera lens, and the reality of an editorial cut, the audience can observe the economics of trust and how it emerges and manifests in the documentary genre. The event will include an online curatorial excursion through the exhibition and a discussion on how the time of war amplifies the main topics of DO{K}VIRA (Trust Cut), the interconnectedness of ethics, politics, and aesthetics in documentary film production.
This event is part of the series "New Directions in Research and Art: Perspectives from Ukraine", organized in cooperation with the Threatened Scholars Initiative of the Open Society University Network (TSI-OSUN). Other events in this series are Feminist Pedagogy and Theory in the Times of Crises and Hello, Europe! Russia Goodbye! Verka Serduchka and the History of Queerness in Ukrainian Pop Culture. To learn more about TSI-OSUN, visit their website.
Yulia Serdyukova is a film producer, photographer, curator, and a member of the cinemovent and NGO Freefilmers.
Oksana Kazmina is an artist whose practice is situated at the intersection of body, moving image, text, and virtual interfaces. Kazmina is a member of the cinemovent and NGO Freefilmers.