Rule of Two Walls
ABOUT
The film presents Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine as a war of memory, identity, and truth. Using live music performance, painting, street art, and the act of filmmaking itself, it aims to illuminate the psychological front lines of the new reality: going to a restaurant amid the near-constant blare of air-raid alerts and missile strikes; and processing, reacting, and resisting while attending to the rhythms of daily life. Blurring the lines between what is in front of and behind the camera, the film probes what it means to make cinema in times of war.
Director
David Gutnik
Genre:
Documentary
Year:
2023
Duration:
76 mins
Language:
English, Ukrainian, Russian
Subtitles:
English
DIRECTOR
DAVID GUTNIK
David Gutnik is a Ukrainian-American writer and director from Brooklyn, New York. Materna, Gutnik's debut feature film, was awarded Best Actress and Best Cinematography at the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival, where Gutnik was also nominated for Best New Director. Gutnik is also the editor of several acclaimed features, including Christina Choe's 2018 Sundance Award-Winning Nancy. He was a 2017 Sundance Institute Fellow and received his MFA in Film at Columbia University.