365 days, also known as a Year

Dmytro Bondarchuk / Ukraine / 2019 / International Premiere / 99 min.

synopsis

Day after day, images of film life in the author's collage glued together from fragments of feature films flow at a frame rate in which the date of the day appears in various forms. The original jigsaw puzzle shows what one year of diverse film footage might look like. The selection of scenes by calendar key is an interesting probe into the history of cinematography in different countries, a showcase of moods and diverse styles of film narration. The link between the selected scenes is a certain urgency connected with the realization of a specific date, whether such a date denotes a historical milestone or a simple act of brushing one’s teeth.

„365 Days' can be perceived simply as a recycled fiction story. As a video essay it discovers meaning of calendar dates for cinema and invites to think about life, memory and time.“ D. Bondarchuk

biography

Dmytro Bondarchuk is a Ukrainian independent critic and a creator of experimental and animated films. He studied journalism at Taras Shevchenko University. Among his films include The History of the Hands (2016) and Devilry 8: Tiburon! (2014).