MATERNITY
Maternité is a film about the fatigue of a mother of two small kids. The act of self-sacrifice for the sake of a child that absorbs all the time and leaves no space either for consumption, nor for satisfactions or vanity, becomes a chance for a devoted woman in a condition of the physical and emotional exhaustion to reach the transcendental state close to spiritual ecstasy.
France 2019 / 17:00 / Director: Nataliya Ilchuk
kitchen.blend
A 3D reconstruction of my grandparents’ kitchen where we had dinner together every Sunday and talked about death. “kitchen.blend” is a desktop film about grief, created almost entirely inside an interface of a Blender computer graphics software.
France, Ukraine 2020 / 15:00 / Director: Nataliya Ilchuk
SENSITIVE MATERIAL
The film’s starting point is a collection of randomly shot moments of happiness and an accidentally captured audio recording. In a painful conversation, fifty-year-old Lilia speaks of her mental trauma as a result of her parents’ constant disputes during her childhood, while her mother justifies the lack of love by the strict frames of a totalitarian society.
Ukraine 2021 / 26:00 / Director: Nataliya Ilchuk
THE SEVENTH SHIFT
‘The Seventh Shift’ is a portrait of a solitary woman who works four jobs in a nearly abandoned Ukrainian town. She manages to maintain her integrity by avoiding the paradigms imposed by the social conditions of existence, focusing instead on the world beyond material dimension with its many limitations.
Ukraine 2023 / 15:00 / Director: Nataliya Ilchuk