I Am a Rock

Year
2024
Country
Ukraine, Estonia
Duration
3'55''’
Director
Teta Tsybulnyk
Hiiumaa Island, Estonia. About 455 million years ago, a meteorite fell here, forming a crater 4 kilometers in diameter. This event is now represented by a landmark, a 1:100 scale model field of the Kärdla meteorite crater. In the middle of the field, there is a rock — or perhaps two rocks? One is an object of the speechless wilderness: a rock is a rock is a rock. The other is a signifier, an agent of the symbolic domain that participates in language and claims to be a meteorite. Playing with Magritte’s “The Treachery of Images” and a song by Simon & Garfunkel, the work delves into the paradoxical relationship between nature, language, and representation.

Within one screening of this movie, you also will be able to watch the films «Scales», «And Where Now?», «Broken Glass», «Message in the Bottle», «Pietà»
CREW:
Director: Teta Tsybulnyk
Production
ruїns collective
Director
Teta Tsybulnyk
Teta Tsybulnyk is a psychoanalyst and artist from Kyiv, Ukraine. She studied sociology at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, social anthropology at the Central European University, and clinical psychology at the Ukrainian Catholic University. In 2017, she co-founded ruїns collective, an art group currently consisting of herself and Elias Parvulesco. They have collaborated on a series of video works, such as dendro dreams (2018), zong (2019), K-object from LL-group (2019), Salty Oscillations (2021), and Endless Sea of Sand (2023). Her research ranges from a more-than-human gaze on landscape to dreamwork and (im)possibilities of language.
Selected Filmography
I Am a Rock (2024)
Hall «ANSHLAG»
Zhovten cinema
Kostiantynivska St, 26
Q&A
Original language with Ukrainian and English subtitles
By tickets
Adapted subtitles
Saturday
06 June 2026
10:40
«CLASSIC»
Zhovten cinema
Kostiantynivska St, 26
Q&A
Original language with Ukrainian and English subtitles
By tickets
Inclusive spaceAdapted subtitles
Wednesday
10 June 2026
15:10
23 INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL
 5 — 12 
June 2026
Pietà
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Pietà
Year
2025
Country
Ukraine
Director
Olena Hrom
Duration
7'54''’
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Message in the Bottle
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Message in the Bottle
Year
2025
Country
Ukraine
Director
Kateryna Ruzhyna
Duration
17'09''’
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Scales
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Scales
Year
2024
Country
Ukraine, USA, Germany
Director
Anna Scherbyna
Duration
13'25''’
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And Where Now?
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And Where Now?
Year
2025
Country
Ukraine
Director
Svitlana Dovbush
Duration
19'04''’
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Broken Glass
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Broken Glass
Year
2026
Country
Ukraine
Director
Kateryna Voznytsia
Duration
7'23''’
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His Lens
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His Lens
Year
2026
Country
United Kingdom
Director
Jess Stephens
Duration
03'14'' ’
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Art Class
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Art Class
Year
2020
Country
United Kingdom
Director
Andrea Luka Zimmerman
Duration
49'57'' ’
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A Radical Duet
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A Radical Duet
Year
2023
Country
United Kingdom
Director
Onyeka Igwe
Duration
28'09'' ’
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While the Gods Were Busy with Another Child
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While the Gods Were Busy with Another Child
Year
2026
Country
UK, Germany
Director
Andrea Luka Zimmerman
Duration
25'32''’
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No Archive Can Restore You
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No Archive Can Restore You
Year
2020
Country
United Kingdom
Director
Onyeka Igwe
Duration
05'54''’
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​​Radio Live (Documentary performance)
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​​Radio Live (Documentary performance)
Country
France
Director
Aurélie Charon
Duration
105’
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