New City Of Friends, New City Of Friends

Yarema Malashchuk, Roman Himey

Ukraine, Colour, 2021, Color, 11’

Yarema Malashchuk, Roman Himey

Taking its title from Walt Whitman, this is the latest fruit of an ongoing psychogeographic project by two Kyiv-based artists hailing from the western city of Kolomyia, Yarema Malashchuk (b. 1993) and Roman Khimei (b. 1992). Conceived, like their later To Whom Have You Abandoned Us, Our Father? , as an amphibious installation/film, it is an experimental fictional diptych centred around a teenage flaneur. A first half of elliptical fragments observes him navigating a suburb; the second half, comprising one masterful tracking shot, follows the lad as he engrossingly narrates and microcosmically restages a city-dérive .

Technical sheet

  • Original version:
    ukrainian
  • Subtitles:
    english
  • Script:
    Yarema Malashchuk, Roman Khimei
  • Photography:
    Yarema Malashchuk, Roman Khimei
  • Editing:
    Yarema Malashchuk, Roman Khimei
  • Sound:
    Serhii Avdeyev
  • Production:
    Yarema Malashchuk & Roman Khimei (Contemporary Ukrainian Cinema).