Under the Sign of Anchor

Program:

National Competition

Year:

2024

Country:

Ukraine

Genre:

Documentary

Duration:

30’

The elite Kyiv Naval Political College operates in a city without access to the sea. The first Soviet aircraft carrier, “Kyiv”, became the flagship of the Northern Fleet. The school’s students go on a long navigation voyage; meanwhile, in the premises of their alma mater the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy is being re-established.

Schedule

Taras Spivak

A Kyiv-based filmdirector and editor. Until 2022, Taras studied at the Department of Cultural Studies of the National University of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, and his interests include media archaeology, semiotics, and psychoanalysis. From 2018 to 2020, he was co-curating the cine-club of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. In 2021, Taras and his fellow film enthusiasts worked on cataloging the archive of the Kyivnaukfilm studio. Since 2021 he has been working as editor of non-fiction films and in post-production. Using retrieved footage and objects in his films, Taras intertwines it in a dialogue, presenting the traditions of film essay, political film, and scientific cinema.

Filmography: Under the Sign of Anchor (2024)

Creative team

Director

Taras Spivak

Camera

Roman Khimei

Editing

Taras Spivak

Music

Roman Vyshnevskyi

Sound Design

Andrii Borysenko