I was going to post something to mark the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear accident, but Sarah Phillips has already posted something so good, saying many of the things I would have wanted to say, that I will simply link to her article at Somatosphere and add some personal notes of my own. The […]
Posts Tagged ‘Ukraine’
Year 25 A.C. (after Chernobyl)–a love letter
Posted in Eco-culture, Politics, tagged Chernobyl, ecology, environmental movement, nuclear politics, Tarkovsky, Ukraine, Vapniaky on April 26, 2011 | 1 Comment »
white bird (with a black mark) flies
Posted in Cinema, Visual culture, tagged Ukraine on June 18, 2010 | 1 Comment »
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uwm5L48r4g&hl=en_US&fs=1& Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1964) Film director Yuri Ilyenko, one of the outstanding cinematographers and directors of the short-lived but significant Ukrainian New Wave, has passed away at age 74. Ilyenko (aka Illienko, Ilienko) first shot into prominence as the cinematographer on Sergei Paradjanov’s epochal Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1964), which launched what became […]