Oleksiy Radynski
Oleksiy Radynski is a filmmaker and writer based in Kyiv. His films experiment with documentary forms and practices of political cinema. They have been screened at film festivals and in exhibition contexts worldwide, including International Film Festival Rotterdam, Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, the Institute of Contemporary Arts (London), e-flux (New York), Docudays (Kyiv), Sheffield Doc Fest, Krakow IFF, DOK Leipzig etc. His film Chornobyl 22 won the Grand Prix at Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen in 2023.
WHERE RUSSIA ENDS
2024
video 25′13″, 35 mm film transferred to digital (HD)
Director: Oleksiy Radynski
Development: Philipp Goll & Oleksiy Radynski
Producer: Luba Knorozok
Courtesy of the artist
Where Russia Ends is an essayistic road movie that interrogates the overlooked histories of settler colonialism and environmental destruction in Russia-occupied indigenous lands. In 2022, a number of previously unknown film materials were discovered at the Science Film Studio in Kyiv, documenting several film expeditions undertaken in the 1980s by a group of Ukrainian filmmakers to various parts of Siberia and the Far North. These materials are the starting point for the recovery of erased histories of multiple imperialist wars that Russia had waged against its future colonies. Exploring the extractivist ideology of development of natural resources, the film exposes the multiple modes of complicity with the Russian imperialist project.