This Ukrainian short - created using state-of-the-art technology - follows a heart-breaking chat between an ordinary Ukrainian man, compelled to join the defense forces on the front-line of the 2022 Russian War, and his emerging girlfriend who anxiously follows his journey as war rages all around him doing what she can to help.
My Director’s Statement Basically speaking, volunteering helped me pull myself together and take my mind off of how fucked up my world had become as a result of the Russian attack on my homeland. I wanted to help in some way…any way. I’m far from being a good warrior, however, going to work and paying taxes didn't seem enough to me. The phrase 'everyone should just do their own thing' sounds like an excuse to me. I felt it was necessary to join the “fight.” Ukrainians are one big family and if everyone in the country spent at least an hour a day working towards our victory, it would be us carrying the planet, not the other way around.
The short film “Plus" came out of UAID’s website, a short interactive piece created to raise awareness and solicit donations for the men and women fighting for Ukraine against the Russian attack.
“Plus” was never “shot” as a short film. The story was uniquely crafted using computer code. The cinematic world was designed using artificial intelligence to innovatively re-create imagery from the war as an experiment in new age Experimentalism. The story and characters depicted in the film are fictional, derived from real-life Ukrainian heroes fighting on the front-lines and the passionate people volunteering to support them in the rear.
Under the tutelage of Kevin Cooper, an American filmmaker, we re-designed the interactive “Plus” to create a novel, stand-alone short film that is yet another form of self-expression of the tragedy of this war, which will be used to further sound the alarm about Ruscism (or “Pашизм”, roughly translated as “Russian fascism,” the culmination of extreme right-wing values that now form the Russian war ideology and its terroristic attack on Ukraine). “Plus” is our way of adding our voices to the world’s discourse by speaking out as loudly and passionately as we can about the murders and trauma brought down on our people by Russian criminals. Time will not judge Russia kindly, we know, but the war is still here…still happening. Our economy has been set back a decade or more. People are being injured and dying daily….
This Ukrainian short - created using state-of-the-art technology - follows a heart-breaking chat between an ordinary Ukrainian man, compelled to join the defense forces on the front-line of the 2022 Russian War, and his emerging girlfriend who anxiously follows his journey as war rages all around him doing what she can to help.
My Director’s Statement Basically speaking, volunteering helped me pull myself together and take my mind off of how fucked up my world had become as a result of the Russian attack on my homeland. I wanted to help in some way…any way. I’m far from being a good warrior, however, going to work and paying taxes didn't seem enough to me. The phrase 'everyone should just do their own thing' sounds like an excuse to me. I felt it was necessary to join the “fight.” Ukrainians are one big family and if everyone in the country spent at least an hour a day working towards our victory, it would be us carrying the planet, not the other way around.
The short film “Plus" came out of UAID’s website, a short interactive piece created to raise awareness and solicit donations for the men and women fighting for Ukraine against the Russian attack.
“Plus” was never “shot” as a short film. The story was uniquely crafted using computer code. The cinematic world was designed using artificial intelligence to innovatively re-create imagery from the war as an experiment in new age Experimentalism. The story and characters depicted in the film are fictional, derived from real-life Ukrainian heroes fighting on the front-lines and the passionate people volunteering to support them in the rear.
Under the tutelage of Kevin Cooper, an American filmmaker, we re-designed the interactive “Plus” to create a novel, stand-alone short film that is yet another form of self-expression of the tragedy of this war, which will be used to further sound the alarm about Ruscism (or “Pашизм”, roughly translated as “Russian fascism,” the culmination of extreme right-wing values that now form the Russian war ideology and its terroristic attack on Ukraine). “Plus” is our way of adding our voices to the world’s discourse by speaking out as loudly and passionately as we can about the murders and trauma brought down on our people by Russian criminals. Time will not judge Russia kindly, we know, but the war is still here…still happening. Our economy has been set back a decade or more. People are being injured and dying daily….