WRITING CULTURE 2012: Film, Food & Beyond

Kseniya Simonova was a participant of the “Ukraine’s Got Talent” show. This piece can be called a historical drama, but her way of expressing the sorrow of World War 2 is not performed through camera and actors, but through drawing with sand. She tells us a story by merely throwing the sand on a surface and dragging her fingers on top of it thus illustrating first a peaceful time followed by the war and losses. This is very touching and a very unusual type of art, Ive never seen anything like that before. She is very talented, she seems to be a good artist, she can make a picture out of sand much faster and nicer than many painters can do with the help of a brush.

The performance made me think one more time about the the overwhelming war and its consequences. She interchanges happy days of everyday life with the horrors of war and weapons, love and death, youth and maturity. She is very emotional while performing, I felt that the war somehow touched her family as it did to almost every family in Soviet Union.

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The movie is unique. First of all because it is a performance. It has its plot and the pictures are arisen one from another,  this piece is done by one person without a big crew of filmmakers. My previous post was about historical drama/holocaust movies. This movie is about war, the war when the holocaust took place and it is definitely a historical drama, it reflects the pain the people went through, and the pain is written on the faces of those who were watching this performance. It is very short yet meaningful piece.