Room to Live

2017; 14 min; fiction; 1.33:1Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, EnglishSubtitles: EnglishBudget: 1000 EUR two persons: a sister, a brother.two accidents. still hands and slightly moving hands. several gestures. a text is spoken. 25 different images, continuous and abrupt. white, blue, brown and green. [ cast ] Sonya Herasymova, Sasha Kovalenko, Yulia Vlaskina, Yulia LandauWritten and directed by Oleg IsakovProduced by Teta Tsybulnyk, Elias ParvulescoImage / edit: Oleg IsakovSound recorded and directed by Anton Prykhodko
The organ piece perfomed by Yulia Landau is ‘Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor’ (BWV 582) by J. S. BachThe poem is ‘Ego Dominus Tuus’ by W. B. YeatsTranslation and subtitling: Teta Tsybulnyk, Oleg IsakovDCP transfer: Volodymyr Onufriienko
[ thank you ] Yulia Gorodnycha, Natalia Sydorova, Maks Zaitsev, Nadia Parfan, Kate Voznytsya, Misha Omelchuk, Maya Baliashvili, Ganna Grebennikova, Artem Pomazan, Viktor Hlon, Yulia Novikova, Tamara Isakova, Igor Isakov, Illia Ivanovych Tsybulnyk, Catherine Schechter-Landau, Anna Kimelfield, Oleksiy Sivak, Anja Borovska, E.R.
source: XAVC-S 2K 16:9 23.976 fpscropped artificially to 4:3screening format: DCP 2K 24 fps Sony Alpha 7S II, Rokinon 50mm f1.4 Zoom H5, Rode NTG4+, Shure SM57Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2017, Audacity, Adobe Audition CC 2017,Ableton Live 9 Suite, iZotope RX6 Advanced
Public screenings:21.10.2017 at the Molodist Kyiv International Film Festival17.10.2018 at the Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, Germany07-08.07.2022 at A Ukrainian Youth (2014 – 2022) film program at FIDMarseille, Festival International de Cinéma de Marseille, France