Cognition Trilogy: Separation

Sophia Gera / Ukraine / 2024 / World Premiere / 82 min.

synopsis

During the first wave of Covid-19, four young Ukrainian filmmakers retreat to the countryside to work on their artistic projects. Where they were looking for peace and escape from pandemic restrictions, they end up finding much more. The film diary, in which the director's voice speaks to the overman within, becomes not only a record of creative development and search, but also a description of the painful journey to the knowledge of one's inner self. The separation does not only refer to the spatial and relational distance between individuals, but can also be understood in the coordinates of the separation of individual layers of the personality in the process of self-observation.

“Separation is a natural process of destruction, which exposes a person, leaving them alone with themselves.”

Source: IMDb

biography

Sophia Gera (1993) is a Ukrainian filmmaker. She gained experience as a camerawoman while filming documentaries and feature films. Together with two other people, she co-founded the art project INAKSHE in the occupied Donetsk region. They have used the project to bring educational and cultural activities to the war-torn region.