On the 21st of August 2018, commemorative events were held to mark the 50th anniversary of Czechoslovakia’s invasion by Warsaw Pacts troops. The fact that Czech president Miloš Zeman, a champion of provocation and self-staging, stayed away from the commemorations as his Slovak counterpart Andrej Kiska spoke live on Czech TV, caused an uproar. To...
Maria Kuvshinova reflects on the bar set by Ukrainian filmmaker Sentsov for measuring dignity. Sentsov recently went on a hunger strike demanding the release of Ukrainian political prisoners in Russia, where he himself is serving a 20-year sentence.
In his essay on the Polaroids of Andrei Tarkovsky, Gawan Fagard draws parallels between the ontology of the medium and the work of the Russian director.
