Interview by Sergei Loznitsa on events in Kiev

[Oleh Kotsyuba (Harvard Univ)]

Dear colleagues,

I would like to draw your attention to this fascinating interview by Sergei Loznitsa, director of “Schast’e moë” and “V tumane,” on the events in Kiev. 

Loznitsa, who was supposed to start filming his new documentary on the tragedy of Babyn Yar (the site of the terrible, notorious massacre of over 30 thousand Ukrainian Jews during WWII), presents his view on the events he experienced. He particularly talks about the desovietization that dominates the Euromaidan movement: Loznitsa defines it as a struggle for dignity. Other interesting points touch on the carnivalesque nature of Euromaidan (Bakhtin is directly mentioned here  - although I am not sure it applies directly), realization of the need for articulation of the people’s anger, on the community aspect of it, Euromaidan as an alternative, better, and utopian reality.

I short, I highly recommend reading this interview: http://www.svoboda.org/content/article/25242133.html

I am convinced that the Euromaidan phenomenon will soon become the object of interesting studies in literature, culture, anthropology - it does tell us something about the “collective unconscious” of the post-Soviet subject, something that does not want to be ignored anymore.

All best,

Oleh Kotsyuba


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