Introducing Ukrainian poetic cinema
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
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6m 49s
Klassiki curator Sam Goff introduces viewers to the world of Ukrainian poetic cinema: a formally radical and politically subversive movement that emerged in Kyiv in the mid-1960s, and which turned to Ukraine’s folkloric past in order to reimagine the nation’s cinematic future.
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