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Kyiv Critics Week
The third Kyiv Critics Week is about to kick off in Kyiv. The festival brings together critics and movie fans to watch and discuss some time-tested classics and new releases. This year, the festival’s program features 19 films. Among the selections are the critically acclaimed black and white drama “The Lighthouse,” French drama “Atlantique,” and the iconic U.S. thriller “Taxi Driver.” The festival will also highlight Ukrainian films, including the drama “Homeward” about the struggles of the Crimean Tatars. Kyiv Critics Week will be held at Zhovten Cinema in Podil. All films will be screened in their original language with English and Ukrainian subtitles.
Kyiv Critics Week. Zhovten (26 Kostiantynivska St.) Oct. 24-30. Check screenings in the full list of events.
(From archive of Paraska Plytka-Horytsvit)
‘Overcoming Gravity’
Much like the works of the now-famous U.S. street photographer Vivian Maier, the 4,000 photographs from Hutsul artist Paraska Plytka-Horytsvit were only recently discovered, decades after her death. From the 1970s to the 1990s, Plytka-Horytsvit documented what surrounded her in the village of Kryvorivnia in the Carpathian Mountains: the lives of its residents and guests, Hutsul daily routines and church holidays and folk rites amid the Carpathian landscape. These photographs are the core of “Overcoming Gravity” at Mystetskyi Arsenal, complemented by the self-taught artist’s spiritual images, fantasy texts and ethnographic records. The organizers say that the exhibition is the story of Plytka-Horytsvit’s “own universe, which existed on the verge of reality and fantasy, about the courage to be free in spite of circumstances, about the ability to travel without leaving your native village, about dreams and the desire to create.”
“Overcoming Gravity.” Mystetskyi Arsenal (10-12 Lavrska St.) Oct. 18 – Jan. 19. Tue-Sun. 11 a.m. – 8 p.m. Hr 80, Hr 40 for students and retirees, Hr 160 for a family ticket. Free for children under 12, people with disabilities and Ukrainian war veterans.
(Somali Yacht Club/ Facebook)
Ethereal Riffian, Somali Yacht Club, Volver Stone
This showcase from Kyiv-based record label Robustfellow Prods will take its visitors on a psychedelic trip, west from Kyiv to Lviv via Zhytomyr. The label’s artists include some of the best psychedelic rock bands in Ukraine. Paying great attention to the lyrics, Kyiv’s highly conceptual Ethereal Riffian band plays progressive doom and stoner rock and will present their fourth record, “Legends.” The more easygoing Somali Yacht Club from Lviv will celebrate the fifth anniversary of their stoner-influenced “The Sun.” And Zhytomyr’s one-man band Volver Stone will bring the Mezzanine back to earth with a blues-rock set from his new album “Wasteland.”
Ethereal Riffian, Somali Yacht Club, Volver Stone. Mezzanine (31 Nyzhnoiurkivska St.) Oct. 20. 6:30 p.m. Hr 300-400
