Film at 7:00pm Wednesday, March 27th, with a seminar to follow at approximately 8:30pm.
Rock.Paper.Grenade will be shown for free at Amherst Cinema. Tickets are available at the box office on a first come, first serve basis.
Rock.Paper.Grenade
(2022, Iryna Tsilyk and Artem Chekh, Ukraine, 93 min, Ukrainian w/ English subtitles)
The film tells the story of “Tymophii” as he moves between childhood and adolescence, navigating many challenges and learning about life and community. He befriends a peculiar but intriguing older man whose entire life is shrouded in secrecy. This piques the young man’s curiosity and essentially inspires his distinct worldview, which has been condensed into this charming and quirky dark comedy that uses a more light-hearted tone to conceal a much deeper meaning about the state of the world and the experiences of someone seeing a very different side of reality.
Film Screening
Wednesday, March 27th
Free and open to the public
Co-Sponsored by:
Film Screening
Followed By
Cinema Seminar
at Amherst Cinema with
Iryna Tsilyk
(Award-Winning Director, Scriptwriter)
and
Ivan Kozlenko
(Visiting Scholar at Amherst College and Former Dovzhenko Center Director)
Iryna Tsilyk
Iryna Tsilyk is Ukrainian filmmaker, writer and publicist. She is the director of the award-winning documentary film The Earth Is Blue As an Orange that received the directing award at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival and was featured at MoMa and more than ten international festivals. She is the author of eight books ranging from poetry and short stories to children’s books that have been translated in more than 12 languages. Iryna is known as a cultural ambassador for Ukraine and was awarded in 2020 the title Merited Artist of Ukraine by President Volodymyr Zelensky. Her most recent film, Rock. Paper. Grenade, is based on the novel Who am I? by Ukrainian writer and Iryna’s husband Artem Chekh. Iryna also publishes non-fiction texts in different international publications. She lives in Kyiv together with her son, while Artem Chekh serves in the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Ivan Kozlenko
Ivan Kozlenko is a film scholar and a culture manager, he is also a founder and artistic director of the Mute Nights silent film festival in Odesa (2010-2020). Kozlenko is a former director of the Kyiv-based Dovzhenko Center, Ukraine’s largest film archive, containing more than 7,000 films. During his decade-long service at the Center, it had became one of Ukraine’s flourishing culture hubs with more than 60 000 attendees (2019) of its film, theater, museum and educational programs. As a Curator of the Centre’s collection in 2011-2014 he headed Ukraine’s national film restoration program. More than 70 Ukrainian films were restored and introduced into scientific circulation under his curatorship and supervision. His novel Tangier was shortlisted for national most prestigious BBC Book of The Year Award in 2017.
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