{"id":2422,"date":"2024-02-21T12:16:21","date_gmt":"2024-02-21T12:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/mdamulti\/?post_type=open_windows&#038;p=2422"},"modified":"2024-03-04T11:03:49","modified_gmt":"2024-03-04T11:03:49","slug":"machaovtchinnikova_en","status":"publish","type":"open_windows","link":"https:\/\/preprod.gmindia.tech\/mda\/en\/open-windows\/machaovtchinnikova_en\/","title":{"rendered":"Macha Ovtchinnikova"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\" style=\"font-size:clamp(17.371px, 1.086rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 1.094), 27px);\"><strong>Macha Ovtchinnikova<\/strong><br><strong><span style=\"color: #7a7a7a;\">Film maker<\/span><\/strong><br><strong><em><strong><em>The scar of the earth<\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><gwmw style=\"display:none;\"><\/gwmw><gwmw style=\"display:none;\"><\/gwmw><gwmw style=\"display:none;\"><\/gwmw><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:40px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\" wp-block-spacer eplus-wrapper\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<style>\n    .video-container {\n        position: relative;\n        padding-bottom: 56.25%; \/* 16:9 aspect ratio *\/\n        height: 0;\n        overflow: hidden;\n    }\n    \n    .video-container iframe {\n        position: absolute;\n        top: 0;\n        left: 0;\n        width: 100%;\n        height: 100%;\n    }\n<\/style>\n\n<div class=\"video-container\">\n    <iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/382756978\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"\" mozallowfullscreen=\"\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:40px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\" wp-block-spacer eplus-wrapper\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns eplus-wrapper is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column eplus-wrapper is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"padding-right:15px;flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\" style=\"font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.227), 16px);\"><strong><strong>The film is currently being screened at the international experimental film festival\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pierrevillemin.wixsite.com\/seekthesun\/diaries-notes-and-sketches\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Seek the sun<\/strong><\/a><strong>in the &#8220;DIARIES, NOTES AND SKETCHES&#8221; section.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\" style=\"font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.227), 16px);\"><strong><strong>It is available in its entirety until June 30, 2020 on Open Windows and the Festival platform<\/strong><\/strong><gwmw style=\"display:none;\"><\/gwmw><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column eplus-wrapper is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p class=\" has-medium-font-size eplus-wrapper\"><strong><em><strong><em>THE SCAR OF THE EARTH<\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><gwmw style=\"display:none;\"><\/gwmw><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\" style=\"font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.227), 16px);\">&#8220;Since my childhood, I\u2019ve been hearing about a horrible story. In Ukraine, at Babi Yar, during the World War II, thousands of Jews were killed there and some of them were choked under the ground.<br>In my great-great-mother\u2019s home, a little black-and-white picture represented desert hill covered of dry grass. A little cross traced on the photograph indicated approximately the place where her sister Esfir was buried with her family.<br>This picture haunts me, but I\u2019ve never seen it, and today it doesn\u2019t exist anymore. I asked my mother to return to this family story, to make a gesture of memory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\" style=\"font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.227), 16px);\">Before the war, Esfir had a happy family, a husband and children. They lived in a Jewish neighborhood, close to the Babi Yar ravine to the north of Kiev.<br><br>The German army took Kiev on September 19 1941. And on September 29, at down thousands of Jews were marched in small groups to the Babi Yar ravine with their suitcases. They were preparing to the long trip.<br>Esfir, her husband and children were among them.\u00a0<br><br>I\u2019ve chosen the video, my medium of predilection, to tell this intimate and universal story. This video retraces a long morning trip: three portions were filmed in the present-day quarter. Babi Yar is an understated remembrance place, that deserted park seems to keep the scars of the earth.<br><br>The first time I\u2019ve visited this place, it strikes me by its desolate and impersonal aspect. This video relates also my first painful impression through the arid form of the editing, the cold image colors, the dry cracklings in the soundtrack, the freezing notes in the sound design, the hardness of the words traced at the bottom of the screen.<br><br>This video work is funded on the story of my great-great-aunt I\u2019ve never knew. But it is also an homage to all these massacred innocent people. I know almost nothing about Esfir and her family. Her sisters and brothers didn\u2019t talk about them, about the Jewishness, about the war. They tried to forget and the Soviet policy tried to make them forget. And this video deals with these traces, snippets of memory.<br><br>The black-and-white picture and traced cross I was telling about was an invisible, virtual grave of Esfir. It was the only remaining trace of these people, their documents and personal stuffs were burned or stolen. But this picture doesn\u2019t exist anymore. And the video \u201cThe scar of the earth\u201d comes like a memorial act.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\" style=\"font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.227), 16px);\">Macha Ovtchinnikova<gwmw style=\"display:none;\"><\/gwmw><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\" style=\"font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.227), 16px);\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\" style=\"font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.227), 16px);\">Macha Ovchinnikova is a French director and researcher of Russian origin. Doctor in film studies, she writes about cinema and contemporary art, and teaches at the university the aesthetics and practice of cinema and video art. She lives and works between Amiens and Paris.\u00a0<gwmw style=\"display:none;\"><\/gwmw><gwmw style=\"display:none;\"><\/gwmw><gwmw style=\"display:none;\"><\/gwmw><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\" style=\"font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.227), 16px);\">Experimenting different film genres and mediums \u2013 documentary, fiction, experimental video \u2013 Macha Ovtchinnikova questions the notion of the time and its investment in the film forms: how should we show the memory exploration? How should we report in images and sounds, in words and silences on the human experience? The archive images from 1990\u2019s, the women\u2019s testimonies, the video projection in the space or on the mirror, images of contemporary urban landscapes constitute the raw material of her last films and future projects. The video work \u201cThe scar of the earth\u201d relates a tragic episode of the history of the Holocaust in Kiev, through the arid form of the editing, the cold image colors, the dry cracklings in the soundtrack, the freezing notes in the sound design, the hardness of the words traced at the bottom of the screen.<gwmw style=\"display: none; background-color: transparent;\"><\/gwmw><gwmw style=\"display: none; background-color: transparent;\"><\/gwmw><gwmw style=\"display: none; background-color: transparent;\"><\/gwmw><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Macha OvtchinnikovaFilm makerThe scar of the earth The film is currently being screened at the international experimental film festival\u00a0Seek the sunin the &#8220;DIARIES, NOTES AND SKETCHES&#8221; section. 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