“Songs of slow burning earth”, interview with the director Olha Zhurba and the protagonist Ganna Vasyk

FRED Film Radio - English Channel

With the beginning of the full-scale invasion in 2022, Olha Zhurba started to film the war as archive footage. It was chaos, they were living apocalyptic times and nobody was thinking of the future.

After the Ukrainian troops liberated some of the regions and the Russians were blocked, Olha Zhurba tells that in a way, people started to adapt to the war, to continue living and resist. She also adapted: she continued to film but she started to think to what kind of film that materials could become. That’s when “Song of slow burning earth” become the idea of a film. Filming was for Olha also a way to continue to do something that was belonging to the previous life, to ground her and give a sense to daily life in times of war.

Anna, one of the main protagonists, did not hesitate to be part of the film. She trusted Olha, she felt they were the same. She says” You trust the person, and then you trust the process“.

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