KINOTEATR RODINA
As in Wolfen, the audience in Schostka’s movie theater produced the film material on which the images flickered across the screen themselves. Every fourth inhabitant of the city worked in the film factory. In the post-war period, the building was called RODINA for a long time, which can be translated as both “family” [Ukrainian] and “motherland” [Russian]. Based on interviews with former employees – some of whom worked at the cinema for more than thirty years – theater director Dima Levitskyi traces the organization of film screenings, the technologies used, the logic of film selection and its intertwining with Soviet propaganda. The artist intersects the portraits of people associated with the cinema with excerpts from films shot on Svema material.
In cooperation with the Goethe-Institut Ukraine