Scottish Premiere
Wheelchair accessible, English subtitles, Pay-what-you-can tickets (£0-£8)
My Favourite Job, an experimental short that chronicles the everyday work of volunteer drivers who helped evacuate civilians from Mariupol during the spring of 2022, and 100% Off, a deep audiovisual reflection on the uncomfortable topic of looting in Mariupol shops, are two of the latest works by Sashko Protyah. Sashko is a Ukrainian filmmaker/activist from Mariupol, currently based in Zaporizhzhia, where he has co-founded a cinemovement/NGO Freefilmers. For the past five years, Freefilmers have been working with topics of urban transformations in East Ukraine, researching working-class creativity and the industrial past and present of post-socialist cities, and exploring memories and archives beyond official historical narratives. Since the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, Freefilmers have been actively involved in all kinds of essential work, such as the transportation of humanitarian aid, medical supplies, and equipment to the regions most affected by the war; taking refugees back to safer places; and keeping visual war diaries that feature overlooked stories and silenced narratives.
Both films comprise footage from mobile phone videos made by the volunteers, the filmmaker’s personal archive, and animated models, serving as evidence of the war’s effect on the prohibition of visual documentation of Mariupol.
Presented with a live Q&A with Sashko Protyah.
Content notes: violence, mainly described verbally or through alternative media (e.g. animation).
Curated by Natalia Guzevataia
dIRECTOR’S BIOGRAPHY
Sashko Protyah is a film director and activist from Mariupol, Ukraine. He's a co-founder of Freefilmers, a collective of artists and filmmakers. In his films, he works with topics of memory, otherness, and alienation. Now Sashko is based in Zaporizhzhia and volunteers for IDPs and the Ukrainian army.