My Thoughts Are Silent
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Post-film discussion with Prof. Elena Monastireva-Ansdell, Associate Professor of Russian, Colby College.
My Thoughts Are Silent, by twenty-seven-year-old Ukrainian filmmaker, Antonio Lukich, premiered at the 54th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival where it garnered the Special Jury Prize in the East of the West Program. Twenty-five-year-old Vadym (Andriy Lidahovskiy) is an aspiring musician and sound engineer working on a film set in Kyiv, Ukraine. In order to repay a loan, he takes a better-paying gig recording local wildlife for the production of a video game. In search of the call of a rare duck, Vadym has to get a ride with his mother, whose life is also complicated by her romantic relationship with a much younger Italian and her dream of moving to Italy. Both a hilarious and deeply reflective road movie, My Thoughts Are Silent scrutinizes independent Ukraine’s complex new realities through the eyes of the first post-Soviet generation. Collected in one film, like in a musical Noah’s Ark, church hymns, British pop (the Spice Girls’ “Viva Forever”), American cloud rap and synthwave (“Dust” by M.O.O.N. from the Hotline Miami video game; and Sam Kužel’s “William Alone”), as well as classical Ukrainian rock (Vika Vradii’s 1993 hit “This is My Sea”) create humor through incongruity, but ultimately weave together into a multicultural canvas that is modern Ukraine.
In Ukrainian with English subtitles.
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Post-film discussion with Prof. Elena Monastireva-Ansdell, Associate Professor of Russian, Colby College.
My Thoughts Are Silent, by twenty-seven-year-old Ukrainian filmmaker, Antonio Lukich, premiered at the 54th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival where it garnered the Special Jury Prize in the East of the West Program. Twenty-five-year-old Vadym (Andriy Lidahovskiy) is an aspiring musician and sound engineer working on a film set in Kyiv, Ukraine. In order to repay a loan, he takes a better-paying gig recording local wildlife for the production of a video game. In search of the call of a rare duck, Vadym has to get a ride with his mother, whose life is also complicated by her romantic relationship with a much younger Italian and her dream of moving to Italy. Both a hilarious and deeply reflective road movie, My Thoughts Are Silent scrutinizes independent Ukraine’s complex new realities through the eyes of the first post-Soviet generation. Collected in one film, like in a musical Noah’s Ark, church hymns, British pop (the Spice Girls’ “Viva Forever”), American cloud rap and synthwave (“Dust” by M.O.O.N. from the Hotline Miami video game; and Sam Kužel’s “William Alone”), as well as classical Ukrainian rock (Vika Vradii’s 1993 hit “This is My Sea”) create humor through incongruity, but ultimately weave together into a multicultural canvas that is modern Ukraine.
In Ukrainian with English subtitles.
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