On February 3, the channels ZDF & ARTE will be showing the TV version (52 minutes) of the documentary Museum ‘Revolution’ created by the director Nataliya Babintseva. The film was produced in Russia by the KinoKI Studio run by Anatoly Golubovsky and Denis Branitsky.
3d February
ZDF 21:45 (Maidan – Die Kunst und die Revolution)
ARTE 22:25 (MAÏDAN – L’ART ET LA RÉVOLUTION)
The film was shot in Kyiv during the events of the Ukrainian Revolution and in Vienna where the curator Konstantin Akinsha made an exposition of Maidan artifacts in Künstlerhaus, under the name I Am a Drop in the Ocean: he believed that “this revolution was necessary from aesthetic point of view”. Some of the materials were offered by the Ukrainian directing team BABYLON’13. The film shows a great variety of artistic manifestations, from professional artists to the ordinary people that took part in the revolution, framed by direct speech of authors and by commentaries from well-known art critics. The film features Aleksandr Roitburd, Nikita Shalenyi, Aleksey Say, Ivan Semesyuk (‘Artistic Barbacan’), Oleksa Mann (‘Artistic Barbacan’), Pavel Klubnikin (‘Straikplakat’), art critic Alisa Lozhkina, poet Artyom Polezhaka, pianist Marian Mitsik.
Maidan is an artistic phenomenon – Nataliya Babintseva
— Maidan was not even a myth. It was a living history that just acquired new heroes, unexpected visual clichés. But it seems to me that later this feeling disappeared. Perhaps that is why my film has such a conclusion (the film is concluded by the scenes of the war parade in May 2015 – editor’s note). Some people do not like my conclusion. I felt I did not understand how they could treat the Maidan, a place of memory, in this way, I felt a kind of injustice. Yes, we needed to separate from the Maidan but, to my mind, it needed to be otherwise. This feeling of mine did not become a part of film but it contained an episode with all the heroes of the film discussing what should be done with this place later. And some really utopian ideas have been put forth.