Kalendar
We are very please to welcome Naomi Uman to town to present films from her recent series, The Ukrainian Time Machine. These films developed out of her decision to return to her ancestral home in the Ukraine to live. The films follow her process of assimilation into a small aging community in rural Ukraine—a process that includes learning the language and customs and connecting across very different cultural experiences. As revealed in her previous films Leche and Mala Leche, which focused on Mexican immigrants in California’s Central Valley, Uman has an eye for the agrarian labour practices that are often unknown parts of a country’s economy. Her life in Legedzine, Ukraine reveals an even more localized food chain and her films follow the labour of the harvest, the necessary pickling to withstand the winter season, and the social occasions of the meal. As a result, the films in The Ukrainian Time Machine are beautiful portraits of the process of creating a home amongst new neighbors and the traditions of village life in modern Ukraine.
Programme:
Selections from The Ukrainian Time Machine:
Kalendar, Naomi Uman, 16mm, 2008, Ukraine/USA 11 mins
The Unnamed Film, Naomi Uman, 16mm, 2008, Ukraine/USA 55 mins
On This Day, Naomi Uman, 16mm, 2008, Ukraine/USA 4 mins
Clay, Naomi Uman, 16mm, 2008, Ukraine/USA 15 mins
@ the Art Bar, Gladstone Hotel | 1214 Queen St West
Tuesday July 6, 2010 | 8:00pm screening
The Unnamed Film