Elias Parvulesco Teta Tsybulnyk Svitlana Pototska
In 2017, Kyiv-based film/art group “ruïns collective” was founded by Elias Parvulesco, Teta Tsybulnyk and Oleg Isakov (see Room To Live). Three years later, commissioned by NGO-organisation Climate Art Labs, Parvulesco and Tsybulnyk collaborated with biologist Svitlana Pototska for this ruminative, cubist study of the Zamglai bog, a vast Dniepr swamp. Colour-distorted present-day footage is juxtaposed with archival materials—including text-extracts from Tsarist, USSR and independence eras—to questioningly probe the often-problematic relationships between this biodiverse area’s human and non-human inhabitants. (N.Y.)