Language: Ukrainian

  • До Землі (To the Ground)

    A three-channel video installation which depicts various plants from Saskatchewan that were captured during my year-long mentorship with Sandra Semchuk (supported by BC Arts Council). The project applies the approach of ethnobotany, in this case combining stories of both Ukrainian and Ukrainian Canadian people about the medicinal use of different plants. The video triptych pairs close-ups of plants together with audio stories about them, giving an inside view of an interwoven connection between Ukrainian people and plants, while at the same time unveiling the history of immigration through individual family stories. By including both English and Ukrainian language the work…

  • Passing Shadows

    Passing Shadows attempts the seeming impossible: to travel the inner pathways of poet Andrew Suknaski’s creative impulses. The film traces in detail the painstaking, methodical and happenstance search Suknaski undertakes to discover the images and the emotions that fill his poetry. He wanders along bookshelves, across faces and into shadows pursuing the moments and symbols of truth that Suknaski strives to translate into words.