DOCU/SHORT

zong

Year
2019
Country
Ukraine
Duration
9’
Directors
Elias Parvulesco, Teta Tsybulnyk, Svitlana Pototska

The Zamglai nature reserve is one of the largest swamp systems in Ukraine. Its name probably derives from the Old Kurdish word ‘zong’ meaning ‘swamp’. We look at the phenomenon of the swamp from different perspectives: as a locus of fears in the folklore of agricultural societies; as an exploited landscape in the industrial age; as a complex system of ties between species within the posthumanist paradigm; and as a natural carbon sink reducing the greenhouse effect and countering climate change.

CREW:
Director: Elias Parvulesco, Teta Tsybulnyk, Svitlana Pototska
Producer: Elias Parvulesco
Cinematographer: Teta Tsybulnyk, Elias Parvulesco
Editor: Elias Parvulesco
Sound: Anton Prykhodko, Elias Parvulesco
Production
ruїns collective
Sales:
ruїns collective, [email protected]
Director
Elias Parvulesco

Elias Parvulesco was born in the Kyiv Region in 1985. He studied engineering, contemporary art and film studies. He has worked as a journalist, editor and film researcher. Elias is a co-founder of the ‘ruїns collective’ film union. As a filmmaker and artist, he has participated in Ukrainian and international film festivals and art exhibitions.

Selected Filmography

The Limits of Europe (2014), The Pink Map (2016), dendro dreams (2018), Lviv Intervision (2018), zong (2019)

Director
Teta Tsybulnyk

Teta Tsybulnyk was born in 1987 in Kyiv, Ukraine. She studied sociology at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and social anthropology at the Central European University, Budapest. She worked as a programme coordinator at the International Festival of Film and Urbanism ‘86’. She is a co-founder of the ‘ruїns collective’ film and art union.

Selected Filmography

dendro dreams (2018), zong (2019)

Director
Svitlana Pototska

Svitlana Pototska was born in Chernihiv in 1976. She is a doctor of Biological Sciences and an assistant professor at the Ecology and Nature Conservation department of the Chernihiv Collegium National University. Svitlana is the head of the Ukraine Nature Conservation Society in the Chernihiv Region. She is engaged in ecological education and nature conservation activities.

Selected Filmography

zong (2019)

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22 INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL
 6 — 13 
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19.91
DOCU/SHORT
19.91
Year
2019
Country
Poland
Director
Emilia Śniegoska
Duration
25’
DOCU/SHORT
A Club Called Willpower
DOCU/SHORT
A Club Called Willpower
Year
2018
Country
Netherlands
Director
Nina Karim van Oort
Duration
23’
DOCU/SHORT
All Cats Are Grey in the Dark
DOCU/SHORT
All Cats Are Grey in the Dark
Year
2019
Country
Switzerland
Director
Lasse Linder
Duration
18’
DOCU/SHORT
Circulation
DOCU/SHORT
Circulation
Year
2020
Country
Ukraine, UK
Director
Oleksiy Radynski
Duration
10’
DOCU/SHORT
Family²
DOCU/SHORT
Family²
Year
2019
Country
Poland
Director
Yifan Sun
Duration
25’
DOCU/SHORT
Greykey
DOCU/SHORT
Greykey
Year
2019
Country
Spain
Director
Enric Ribes
Duration
28’
DOCU/SHORT
inside • outside
DOCU/SHORT
inside • outside
Year
2019
Country
France
Director
Charlotte Ballet-Baz and Alice Boccara-Lefèvre
Duration
16’
DOCU/SHORT
Our Territory
DOCU/SHORT
Our Territory
Year
2019
Country
Belgium
Director
Mathieu Volpe
Duration
20’
DOCU/SHORT
Scenes from a Transient Home
DOCU/SHORT
Scenes from a Transient Home
Year
2019
Country
South Africa
Director
Roger Horn
Duration
13’
DOCU/SHORT
Stunned, I Remain Alert
DOCU/SHORT
Stunned, I Remain Alert
Year
2020
Country
Brazil
Directors
Lucas H. Rossi dos Santos,
Duration
15’
DOCU/SHORT
A Friday’s Monday
DOCU/SHORT
A Friday’s Monday
Year
2019
Country
Ukraine
Director
Ivanna Prokopchuk
Duration
11’
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