PEACE AND TRANQUILITY (video)
2022

After Russian troops invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, the famous Lviv playwright Andriy Bondarenko wrote a play about a life cut short by war.
He focuses on the life of his family. Peace and tranquility, which the author knew since childhood, are replaced by revolutions, wars, and historical traumas. And now, as an adult, Andriy faces the threat that previous generations of his family witnessed. These thoughts were embodied in a one-act play written in response to the unfolding events.
To accompany this film version of the play, the authors use photographs from Bondarenko’s life, imagining the people who inhabited it and the people of Ukraine in general. The result is an act of artistic expression, memory and, ultimately, resistance.

Myro KLOCHKO (1990). Film director and screenwriter revealing in her works the stories of «little people» and everyday life. Explores the lines between and working in-between documentary and play movie, working in a magic realism genre.

Anatoliy TATARENKO (1989). In 2012 graduated from Kharkiv State Academy of Culture, Faculty of Cinema and Television Arts, Ukraine. Co-founder of «Periscope» photography initiative (2016), which in particular publishes photo books about Ukrainian cities.