A documentary short by the Ukrainian filmmaker Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk shows sculptors of religious statues using their tools and training for war.
During the Maidan uprising, which began in 2013, when Ukrainian protests led to the overthrow of the Kremlin-backed President, Viktor Yanukovych, many of the country’s filmmakers banded together to form a collective known as #Babylon’13, focussed on exposing Russian aggression in their country. After Putin launched a, I began to correspond with some of those filmmakers, hoping to find a local perspective on the war.
Dmytro had undergone a similar transformation himself. When the Russian forces invaded, he was in Kyiv with his wife. They live not far from the airport, and he remembers waking up from the bombing; a house nearby was damaged. Right away, he began shooting footage in the capital. He saw his responsibilities as a director overlapping with his responsibilities as a citizen, making films so that “you can see how people defend sovereignty, democracy, territory, and their own lives,” he told me.
For “Liturgy of Anti-Tank Obstacles,” Dmytro took a patient, observational approach to storytelling. The film shows the artists at work, but it doesn’t present their individual backstories or personalities. He doesn’t mention that two of the three artists are now serving as soldiers in the war. When I asked him about the choice, he said he approached the film this way because of a pattern he had seen during the war: “Everybody in Ukraine, no matter where, they start to be like one person.
Dmytro told me about a recent trip to Paris, where he’d travelled to finish his feature film, which showed how pervasive the reality of the invasion is for people in Ukraine. It was eleven o’clock one night, and he realized that he’d forgotten to buy water. He remembers thinking, Oh, damn, I forgot to buy the water, and I need to wait for the next day. His friends were confused, and reminded him that shops were open late. Oh, damn, he thought again: You don’t have a curfew.
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