Ukraine is like porcelain, you can break it but you can’t destroy it.
A look at Slava, Anya and Andrey, three artists who are still in Ukraine fighting the Russians and still making their art- small porcelain figures that they create and leave in various places.
The pair works in porcelain because the material is nigh indestructible. Yes it breaks but you can repair it and clean it up even after millennia. Their medium is a message.
A beautiful and loving film about the human spirit in trying times this is a wonderful portrait of life in Ukraine that is counter to al the other death and destruction films. Here we see how much life there is. It’s something that is going to come as a revelation to many people who see the country as bombed out.
I was moved.
I have to mention a brief animated sequence near the end of the film that usesAnya's art. It’s a glorious little tid bit that is pure cinematic magic. I would love to see her designs as the basis for a whole film.
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