Od symfonii do kakofonii. Donbas w filmach Dzigi Wiertowa, Ihora Minajewa i Serhija Łoznicy

Abstract

The article analyzes the depiction of the Ukrainian province, Donbass, in the documentaries Ihor Minajew (Cacophony of Donbass) and Serhij Loznica (Donbass). Minajew, a documentarian from Odessa living in France since the 1980s, took issues with the documentary by Dziga Wiertow (Symphony of Donbass, 1930). His Cacophony of Donbass had its premiere in March 2018 during the Docudays UA festival. Minajew reconstructs the myth of working class – the fundamental element of the Soviet simulacrum, which in his opinion led to the outbreak of conflict in Donbass in 2014. Arguably, in his documentary, Loznica reveals the predatory mental cruelty and essential immorality of neo-Sovietism that affected the Ukrainian communities living in Donbass on the instigation of Moscow and pro-Russian President Wiktor Janukowycz, who imposed on the regionm the logic of simulation that had nothing to do with the logic of facts.