HD DCP 5.1 / 70 min / Documentary / Netherlands / Ukranian, English / 2023
Khrystyna Bunii travels solo across remote south-west Ukraine in pursuit of
her anthropological research. As she encounters people and digitises their
family photo archives, conversations and interconnections emerge. Conducting
visual research into the trans-national region of Hutsulshchyna, Bunii pursues a
political practice of self-narration from the margins of representation.
The sequences of this poetic journey do not simply elucidate the history of the
region, but rather call for an associative labour from researcher and spectator
alike, and finding people who want to talk about the region’s past is not an
easy task. Made through close collaboration between the film’s directors and
protagonist, Weightless combines observational and direct cinema style with
staged performance and elements of documentary-essay.
FESTIVALS & AWARDS
Rotterdam Film Festival, World Premiere 2023
THE CREW
Script & Directors
Marta Hryniuk and Nick Thomas
With
Khrystyna Bunii
Produced by
Marta Hryniuk and Nick Thomas
Cinematographer & camera
Marta Hryniuk
Edited by
Diana Toucedo
Location sound
Nick Thomas
Mixage
Hugo Dijkstal
Grade and deliveries
Laurent Fluttert
Location manager
Oleksandr Debych
Production adviser
Manon Bovenkerk (near/by films)