750

750

2021 · Documentary

Based on miniDV archive shot in 2006 in a Ukrainian city of Lviv during the celebration of 750 years since its founding. The film speaks of herd instinct, mass behavior and crowd control and is constructed as a multi-screen centered on the idea of surveillance cameras, movement tracking and facial recognition of people who are gathering in places of historical memory urged by a need for entertainment, wanting to be among strangers and following them with no particular goal. A project about loss of liberty in the times when people are treated as objects for machine learning: everyone is a target and everything is recorded. It questions the possibility of perception of other humans as mysterious and unpredictable beings without calculating their emotions algorithmically but following senses and intuition.

Directed by Nataliya Ilchuk

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MovieDocumentary

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MovieAnimationDocumentary

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Maternity · 2019

MovieDramaDocumentary

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Farewell

Farewell · 2011

MovieRomanceMusic

Short film about two shirts in love. The end of a relationship between two people doesn't mean the end of a relationship between their clothes.

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MovieAnimationDocumentary

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MovieDocumentary

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Questionnaire · 2022

MovieDocumentary

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The Seventh Shift

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MovieDocumentary

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MovieDocumentary

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Sensitive Material

MovieDocumentary

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bodiless lovers · 2009

bodiless lovers

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MovieDocumentary

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Gothic is Serenity

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