TO WHOM HAVE YOU ABANDONED US, OUR FATHER!

Yarema Malashchuk, Roman Himey
From Kyiv-based duo Yarema&Khimei (see New City of Friends), an enigmatic docu-fiction hybrid which teasingly plays with expectation and mood—only revealing the specific nature of its subject-matter during its rousing, disarming finale. Up to this point the film has comprised glimpses of adults and children in various spaces located within a large, unidentifiable building. These wordless, quietly quotidian moments, seemingly unremarkable in themselves, achieve an ominous intensity through composition and editing until the climactic release is achieved by means of a Modest Mussorgsky choral-work. (N.Y.)