Where Russia Ends. Cinematic Essay

25. September 2025, von OESt

Foto: Still from Where Russia Ends (Ukraine 2023). Courtesy of Oleksiy Radynski

Film screening and talk Oleksiy Radynski (Artist, filmmaker, Kyiv), Philipp Goll (Author, critic, Berlin) 

18.00–19.30 
Where Russia Ends. Cinematic Essay (Ukraine 2023, 25 minutes)
 
In the late 1980s, a team of Ukrainian filmmakers undertook several film expeditions to remote areas of Siberia. Their forgotten film rolls were rediscovered in Kyiv in 2022, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. This fascinating archive is the starting point for a cinematic essay that addresses Russian imperialism, environmental destruction, and the ongoing oppression and extermination of indigenous peoples in the remote areas of Siberia.
 
This public film screening and discussion is part of the summer school A Postcolonial Condition? Art, Literature, Film, and the Everyday in Eastern Europe, 1989–today, taking place in September 2025 at Warburg-Haus, Hamburg.
 
Organised by Dr. Marina Gerber, Prof. Dr. Petra Lange-Berndt, Prof. Dr. Anja Tippner, Eastern European / Slavic Studies and Department of History of Art, Universität Hamburg