A movie about the artist « Careful! Life is ongoing » – UP review
In Ukrainian rental, to the joy of lovers of good cinema, the documentary « Careful! Life lasts » is obtained Anton’s thing. It is one of the main contenders for the national film « Golden Jig » and the attention of the mass viewer. Film and military Yaroslav Pidhora-Gvyadovsky He tells how the director is path to the viewer.
In order to kiss the viewer, the director must find not only the form of information, but also the translator, who will be both her fellow and a leader to the audience. If it is found – consider the half way.
Anton Stuka overcame this path in a second. He chose his boat from the civilian world, Kharkiv « street » artist Hamlet Zinkivsky, smartly and visionally.
Hamlet – known to the locals of Kharkiv and Odessa. He is loved for the accuracy of statements and the richness of the meanings in stingy drawings on walls, gates, fences, stops, garages, doors and all possible flat surfaces of urban development, not necessarily whole and well -open residents, but always significant.
It is clear that in order to properly evaluate the war it is necessary to give the word to the military. And yet, then civilian will not be clear. Or it will be scary or just uninteresting. But in order to properly evaluate the consequences of the war, one must speak only with an artist who can « show » all one phrase, simple picture, meaningful metaphor. Hamlet is such a harbinger, modern biblical ecclesiast and Ukrainian Banksi.
Over the past 15 years, Zinkivsky’s work could be seen in the streets of Ukrainian cities. And all his accurate statements and his own aphorisms were previously written in Russian. But with the war and the realization that Russian is the language of the occupier, Hamlet was redrawn, because for him life continues in Ukrainian.
”Art is money … to buy wheelbaries for the Armed Forces« ,-the artist Strot Art Hamlet is satisfied before writing an ironic phrase with black paint on white garbage.
« Art is money … to buy wheelbaries for the Armed Forces »
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”Me well where I am« , » He wrote. And then even more inspired and frankly confessed in his love: « This city is enough for self -knowledge« But then he drew this statement on the whole house, now these are the remains of a crushed house. According to him, now to draw on the remains of life is more valuable than an exhibition in New York or London.
« This city is enough for self -knowledge »
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A garbage truck, which is already a challenge to Russian aggression, as if calling « beat on me as in the center of decision making, » is a fantastic valuable image. He – as a symbol of freedom, as a mobile resistance center, a detail of the free world, which is expressed in art, spiritually impossible without will. Free – will, saved – paradise!
After the Armed Forces of Ukraine released raisins from the Russian occupation in September 2022, more than 400 tortured and killed people were found in mass burials – from children to old children. It is another Bucha and Borodyanka, the place of genocide. Now you can not go here – you need to go here. Hamlet walks with raisins, « oh … is » from the degree of destruction, cannot believe that she made « and … in Russian », tells about every house.
According to Hamlet, drawing on the remnants of life-it is now more valuable than an exhibition in New York or London
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From the height of the drone flight show a partially burnt and ruined city: this is the burned City Council, here is a pizzeria, « where the pizza was – fire », here are 4-5 floors of burned apartments and lives of people. Hamlet will not be able to restore this life, but he does what he can. He says, « Drawing in the de -industrial areas that continue to be fired … I just feel that it should be done. »
Interestingly, on his T -shirt, painted paint, « Maker of his city » was written. And this is another accurate image that goes beyond the movie just like the phrases and drawings of Hamlet go beyond their limits. They are discharged into the meaning of being a Ukrainian during and after the war – in Creator one’s life, in the one who is withCreatesfromCreates New City. If Jeremiah wept in front of the walls of Jerusalem, regretting him, Hamlet draws a new Jerusalem, calling others to create.
Hamlet will not be able to restore this life but he does what he can
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The film gives so much visual and textual information that it would be quite possible for the viewer to write a series of books of impressions similar to the monumental « searches of the lost time » by Marcel Proust. Full of emotions, Hamlet is very close to the viewer in his own words and manner of speak and look.
The movie gives so much visual and text information that the viewer is quite possible to write a series of books of impressions
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Hlomous, he funnyly burns, quite modernly consumes jargon and light swearing, but at the same time intelligent, witty notes the nuances, and his verbosity does not strain, because words are accurate and full of images (« broken but unbreakable »). And he loves the camera.
In general, the camera does not overburden the movie « Excessive » number of frames. You do not get tired of it, there is no desire and « advice » to reduce it, as the emperor of Austria-Hungary asked Mozart to « reduce the number of notes ».
« Careful! Life lasts » Anton’s thing lasts the optimal hour of screen time – just as much as it is necessary to know the « Russian measure » and its methods of existence in raisins.
The camera does not overburden the movie « excessive » number of frames and does not cause fatigue
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All the heroes, the Izumchans, giving comments, remembering the occupation times from April 2022 to September. They are not silent witnesses, instead of their lives, memories and spirit, they hope that the killers will receive a punishment – whether in this world, in the International Court in the Hague from next year, or in the world to come, in the court of God.
Full of emotions, Hamlet is very close to the viewer both in his own words and manner of speaking and appearance
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In the movie, the camera serves as a judicial retainer, notifying the number of crime. Sometimes she just rides on the road, methodically filming burning houses and the movement of people past them as the continuity of life in spite of everything. This is reminiscent of those first black and white and silent shooting of the first decade of the twentieth century, when there was only that filming of life, is amazing that exists and that it can be seen at a distance, in time, in the future.
The modern Ukrainian director throws a bridge from the past to the future.
Life continues – everything is very simple.
