CTM x ICA Cinema 1

Standard Deviation x Remote Control pres »Ridne« part 1

19:30

Mariana Berezovska pres »Rybachka«: Katarina Gryvul & Alex Guevara – live AV

21:00

Ticketing closed

Standard Deviation x Remote Control bring us directly to Ukraine, where people continue to resist Russia’s brutal full-scale war of aggression. Their joint project »RIDNE« (Рідне, Ukrainian for »native/dear«) is a series of videos shot over 2022 and 2023 in various locations in the country. The videos, shot in first-person perspective, were set to music by musicians who are closely connected to the respective place shown in each video, whether it is their own hometown, a personal place of solace, or a place that symbolises something of their own experience of war. In the first part of »RIDNE« presented tonight, tofudj walks through the ghostly darkness of the city of Kyiv, blacked-out by Russian bombing, while Diana Azzuz sets scenes on the border to Poland to music, reflecting on experiences of her own flight. Mykolaiv native bsw reimagines a walk through the ravaged streets of his city as a quest-like adventure. Odesa’s Undo Despot scores familiar city scenes including her usual beach spot, which no longer feels the same, and Kharkiv-based artist Panghoud guides us through the new realities of his hometown turned battleground.

Following the screenings will be a presentation of live AV works conceived by Borshch magazine co-founder Mariana Berezovska, under a wider project »Rybachka.« On the first evening, musician Katarina Gryvul collaborates with Peruvian multimedia artist Alex Guevara. The title Rybachka (Рибачка, Ukrainian for »the fisherman's wife«) is borrowed from the poem of the same name by Lina Kostenko, one of Ukraine's most important poets. In it, Kostenko depicts a vivid expression of the state of having to endure persistent uncertainty, between fear and hope, as people in situations of war, crisis, and flight must endure time and again. As an ongoing project, »Rybachka« aims to bring together artists from different backgrounds in order to deconstruct pain together, to raise awareness of the less obvious consequences of war and violent conflicts, and to search for ways of healing through artistic means.

The cinema programme is presented in collaboration with the project Goethe-Institut in Exile, which aims to provide meeting places, safe spaces, and platforms for cultural workers who can no longer work in their home countries due to war. The initiative aims to maintain spaces for dissent, dialogue, and intercultural exchange for artists and intellectuals from countries where the Goethe-Institut and other international cultural institutions have had to close their doors due to war or censorship.

»RIDNE« original concept: Remote Control
Concept and site design: Carsten Goertz
Video direction: Kurt Heuvens
Art direction: RAM
Curation and artist relations: Nastya Zamorskaya
Curatorial direction: Paul Georg
Production manager: Anastasiia Syradoieva, Valyk Khast
Project supervisor: Rouven Brües
Music contributors: Diana Azzuz, Undo Despot, tofudj, Panghoud, bsw and more
Camera operators: Kurt Heuvens, Volodymyr Polukhin, Yehor Terletskyi and more.

»Rybachka« original concept: Mariana Berezovska