2008 > Ukraine > Directed by Naomi Uman In 2006, filmmaker Naomi Uman retraced her great grandparents’ emigration from Eastern Europe in reverse, settling in the tiny village of Legedzine, Ukraine (about 350 miles south of Kyiv), where she lived for four years. The result of her adventures was “a quietly picaresque quintet of 16mm films, The Ukrainian TimeMachine. In capturing the joys and hardships of her neighbors’ centuries-old way of life…Uman created a new kind of living history, fresh with curiosity and verve.” (School of the Art Institute of Chicago) Tonight we’ll show three of the films. Unnamed Film (55 mins) is a beautiful documentary about life in Legedzine, cataloging its inhabitants’ various strategies of labor and resourcefulness, their heartiness and warmth. It will be bookended by Kalendar (12 mins), a poetic collection of shots, one for each month of an entire year; and Coda, a black-and-white epilogue encapsulating the themes of the series as a whole. At a time when we are witnessing the senseless destruction of Ukraine and its people on a daily basis, we offer a glimpse of what life was like not so long ago, and a window into the soul of a nation that is fighting for its very existence. In Ukrainian. Paraphrased subtitles in English. Cosponsored with the Institute for European Studies.More at https://creative-capital.org/projects/the-ukrainian-time-machine/ 1 hr 11 min