Sergej Bukovskij's retrospective  

Blank and impassive, the workers dressed in white gowns are throwing still-moving chicken bodies into iron containers from where they soon will join their dead and pulled next-of-kin. A watchful camera notices, though, that the difference between the victims and the butchers is not so big: a factory dormitory is like a container, only made for people to be “stored”. Living there with neither comfort nor intimacy, women sing songs to not get into fights. In a festive demonstration we see an ironic decoration: a peace dove made of playwood is flapping its wings while a papier-mâché chicken is turning on a spit.

Awards

Kiev International Film Festival Molodist – Grand Prix (1987)

Sergej Bukovskij

Sergej Bukovskij was born in 1960 in Bashkiria, USSR. After graduating from the Karpenko-Karyi Kiev State Institute of Theatrical Arts, he began working as a film director at the Ukrainian State Studio of Documentary Films. He has made approximately 50 documentary and television films and won awards at international film festivals. His nine-part documentary series War. The Ukrainian Account (2003) was awarded the National Taras Shevchenko Prize of Ukraine in 2004. Over the last few years Sergej Bukovskij has been working as an independent film director and making documentaries for Ukrainian and Russian television channels.

Selected Filmography

The Hyphen / Znak tire (1992)
To Berlin! / Na Berlin! (1995)
War. The Ukrainian Account / Vijna. Ukrainskij rahunok (2003)
Vilen Kalyuta. Real Light / Vilen Kaljuta. Realne Svitlo (2003)