Kramatorsk Wall

synopsis

Director Kristina Savutsina set out to make a film about an incident in the Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk, where a capsule containing a highly radioactive element was accidentally sealed into the wall of a flat in a prefabricated housing block in the 1980s. Yet within a set built to replicate the original flat exactly, the project became a refractive documentary, turning its attention towards the filmmaking process and the filmmaker herself. Her relationship with a person who is also a crew member, along with other aspects of her personal life, is presented not as a diary but as a sequence of scenes steeped in autofictional self-fashioning, blurring the boundaries between the realities of Kramatorsk and the world behind the camera.

biography

Kristina Savutsina (1989) is originally from Belarus and is based in Hamburg and Berlin. She directed the documentary Khan’s Flesh (2021), which captures everyday life in rural Belarus and has been screened at a number of international festivals.

film details

director:	Kristina Savutsina
producer:	Kristina Savutsina
photography:	Georg Kussmann, Kristina Savutsina
editing:	Kristina Savutsina
sound:	Béla Brandes, Max Gausepohl

contact

Kristina Savutsina
savutsina@gmail.com