Heat Singers (Співає ІФТКЕ)

Production Status
Сompleted
Release Date
2019
Country(ies) of (co)production
Ukraine
Duration
64’

Music is born out of the crumbling central heating system of Ukraine, as a team of devoted pipefitters rush from home to home to tame hot fountains and… to sing!

TeploKomunEnergo is a municipal heating company in the city of Ivano-Frankivsk. Five days a week, its workers have to deal with fountaining radiators, flooded basements and angry clients. Among other official duties, every Wednesday they come together in a recital room and sing in the TeploKomunEnergo union choir. This is a story about the central heating system as a symbol of modern Ukraine. It explores how outdated social structures do not fit into the modern economy but, paradoxically, continue to function. Traces of working class culture and human warmth serve as a survival mechanism in times of transition.

CREW:
Directing: Nadia Parfan
Production: Illia Gladshtein
DOP: Dmytro Burko, Vasyl Hoshovskyi
Sound: Andriy Borysenko
Editing: Mykola Bazarkin
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Festivals

Visions du Réel, Krakow FF, Odesa IFF, Astra FF, Artdocfest, Trieste FF, DokuBaku IDFF

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