No man is an island

U–jazdowski / Cinema / Repertoire / No man is an island

23/03/2023

film screening and discussion

Screening of the film and meeting with creators

We invite you to a special screening of the film No man is an island on Thursday, March 23, 2023 at 19:00. The screening will be followed by a meeting with its creators – director and current resident of the U–jazdowski Residence Olha Mykhailiuk and musician, sound engineer and producer Tomasz Sikora.
- No man is an island is an audiovisual journey through the south of Ukraine. The three-part picture paints a poetic image of unreachable Crimea, reminiscences of peaceful Mariupol, as well as documents a dramatic time which Suren Voskanyan, one of the musicians collaborating on the film, experienced in Mariupol when it was under occupation.
The rich sound layer of the film is built from Crimean sea waves, wind and cicadas, snippets of conversations and laughter of once peaceful Mariupol’s residents, the sounds of the Azov Sea and the Azovstal. Field recordings are interwoven with music played on duduk, baglama, tambourine, saxophone, and clarinet.
Olha Mykhailiuk
- multidisciplinary artist. In her work she creates a possibility of interaction of the different media: video art, performance, music, literature. She goes beyond purely artistic practices into gardening or documentary filmmaking, as she has been doing in recent months in the de-occupied territories. Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, Olha has been in Kyiv, working as a volunteer and documenting. Her latest works are "PaM’JATAty" and "Irpin". Gaude Polonia scholar (Poznan, 2016).
Tomasz Sikora
- musician, sound engineer, producer, publisher, culture animator and practitioner of cultural cooperation with Ukraine. As a part of Wrocław band Karbido, he has been cooperating with Yuri Andrukhovych since 2004, with whom the band released 5 albums and played over a dozen concert tours. He also collaborated with Serhij Żadan, ArtPole agency, DakhaBrakha bands, VJ Grupa Cube. With Karbido he also participates in the projects "Stolik", Music4Buildings and others. Author of sound for feature, animated and documentary films. Awarded with Orzeł 2022 for the sound for the film Sonata by Bartosz Blaschke.
SK.EIN.
- since 1998 experimented with sound and recording. From 2001 to 2006 played percussion in various bands ranging from reggae to improvised music and techno. Co-founder and permanent member of Port Mone trio (2006 — to date). Since 2012, as SK.EIN, participating in various collaborative projects with Ukrainian and Polish artists. In 2019, during the Gaude Polonia scholarship program, created his debut full-length work Crossfades, dedicated to the city of Gdańsk and based on field recordings made there. Combining musical activities with journalism, storytelling and writing. The creator and author of the project How to Love It — a specific guide to the architectural heritage and history of Belarus (devoid of propaganda clichés).