Dmytro Hreshko
Dmytro Hreshko has been studying and making documentaries since 2018. In 2019, he completed a week-long narrative film directing course in Uzhgorod and the CinemaLab two-week course of auteur documentary filmmaking from the Kharkiv School of Visual Arts. In 2020, he graduated from the Indie Lab 2020 documentary film school in Kyiv. He is a frequent participant of international workshops and pitchings.
Divia
2024,
film, 22 min. cut
Divia, named after the ancient Slavic goddess of nature and all living things, who is opposed to war, destruction, and death, is an observational documentary about the catastrophic impact on Ukraine’s environment as a result of the Russian invasion and how nature is resisting and recovering from this aggression. The ravaged body of Ukrainian nature is the main character behind this image- and sound-driven work. Silently laying bare the catastrophic impacts of war, nature tries to heal from its injuries by absorbing and transforming the remains of the war. Deminers, body searchers, ecologists, and animal activists are doing all they can to measure the scale of the tragedy and restore lost natural resources.
neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst (nGbK), station urbaner kulturen/nGbK Hellersdorf, Between Bridges, Prater Galerie
February 23–June 9