Enticing, Sugary, Boundless or Songs and Dances about Death

synopsis

How can we talk about death and still enjoy the beauty of life? Who can we tell if we have no one? People from all corners of the world deal with the perspective of death and ask similar questions. This documentary collage by Tetiana Khodakivska and Oleksandr Stekolenko (1980) is a patient enterprise, working with intimate portraits of both ordinary people and the brilliant filmmakers, and thoughtfully placing them within a three-part mosaic about the greatest riddle of human existence. Only the motif of death gives life a purpose and links us all – but what must happen in order for us take it seriously? This imaginatively edited work of docufiction is a contemplation of life in relation to our own mortality.

"This movie is about awareness of death. The story is built on documentary and fiction narrative techniques blended together. " T. Khodakivska, O. Stekolenko

biography

Ukrainian director Tetiana Khodakivska (1980) has been working for television since she was fifteen. She has made a number of successful programs, such as Forgiveness Sunday (2005), Beyond Fear (2015), Angels of War (2012), and the 3D animated film Travel to Heaven (2013). Oleksandr Stekolenko (1971) has made several music clips, commercials, and fiction films, including Attorney Larin's Troubled Vacation (2007), and Grushevksiy Cocktails (2014).

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