Speakers: Oleksiy Radynski and Lyuba Knorozok
Venue: Jam Factory Art Center, Auditorium, 124 Bohdana Khmelnytskoho Street, Lviv
As part of The Chalk Circle, the public program of the Stammering Circle exhibition, this event features a conversation between filmmaker and writer Oleksiy Radynski and producer and filmmaker Lyuba Knorozok. The discussion centers on Radynski’s recent film Where Russia Ends, narrated by Knorozok, and expands to consider broader questions around environmental destruction, colonial legacies, and the ideological structures embedded in cinematic and archival forms.
Where Russia Ends is a film essay that investigates the rarely acknowledged history of colonialism and environmental devastation in the Russian-occupied territories of the Indigenous peoples of Siberia. Drawing on recently rediscovered footage shot by Ukrainian filmmakers in the 1980s, the film reconstructs the erased history of imperial conquest through a study of landscape, infrastructure, and extraction. Framed within the ongoing Russian war against Ukraine and the concept of “ecocide,” Where Russia Ends asks how cinema can serve as witness to environmental and ideological violence.
Oleksiy Radynski is a filmmaker and writer based in Kyiv. His work engages with political cinema and documentary forms. His films have been screened internationally, including at Berlinale, IFF Rotterdam, the ICA (London), Taipei Biennial, Docudays UA, Sheffield Doc/Fest, and DOK Leipzig. He received the Grand Prix at the Oberhausen International Short Film Festival for Chornobyl 22 (2023). His recent work includes Infinity According to Florian (2022), Chornobyl 22, and Where Russia Ends. Since the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, he has collaborated with The Reckoning Project.
Lyuba Knorozok is a film and media producer based in Kyiv. Her recent projects include Chornobyl 22 (Grand Prix at Oberhausen), Infinity According to Florian (Rotterdam IFF 2022), both directed by Oleksiy Radynski, and Forever-Forever by Anna Buryachkova (Venice Film Festival 2023). Since 2022, she has been part of The Reckoning Project: Ukraine Testifies, which documents war crimes through storytelling and legal testimony.
The conversation will be held in Ukrainian.