WANDERING PAIN
Documentary/Animated film
2024
Country: Russia
Runtime: 8 min
Rating: 18+
Director: Eugeniya Gorda
Scriptwriter: Xenia Gutova
Producer: Lika Alekseeva
Cameraman: Eugeniya Gorda
Sound engineer: Eugeniya Gorda
Artistic director: Eugeniya Gorda
Production: LA Production
The film ‘Wandering Pain’ is about the experience of being the child of a man who fought in Chechnya and brought home pain and fatigue, a man who feels blank, but not alive or full of energy. It is like a look from bottom up at something big and scary, an attempt to comprehend it and evaluate it. The author explores how callousness and dryness destroyed the youth and fatherhood of a man who did not choose to be in the lace where people were killed en masse, but who nevertheless survived and returned to his homeland to raise his children and prevent a new military clash from happening in their lifetime.
2024
Country: Russia
Runtime: 8 min
Rating: 18+
Director: Eugeniya Gorda
Scriptwriter: Xenia Gutova
Producer: Lika Alekseeva
Cameraman: Eugeniya Gorda
Sound engineer: Eugeniya Gorda
Artistic director: Eugeniya Gorda
Production: LA Production
The film ‘Wandering Pain’ is about the experience of being the child of a man who fought in Chechnya and brought home pain and fatigue, a man who feels blank, but not alive or full of energy. It is like a look from bottom up at something big and scary, an attempt to comprehend it and evaluate it. The author explores how callousness and dryness destroyed the youth and fatherhood of a man who did not choose to be in the lace where people were killed en masse, but who nevertheless survived and returned to his homeland to raise his children and prevent a new military clash from happening in their lifetime.
ZHENYA (EVGENIYA) GORDA
DIRECTOR'S BIO:
Evgeniya Gorda was born in the village of Rodino, Altai Territory. In 2024, she graduated from the Higher School of Journalism, Tomsk State University.
She shot her first film work in 2023 at the Rudnik Festival-Lab. The animated film Partial, which was created within 10 days of the festival, became Evgeniya’s exploration of her body, family history and the loss of her father. The film was presented ias part of the competition programme at the Big Cartoon Festival, within the special screening at the Kinoproba festival and screened at Theatre.doc.
Evgeniya Gorda scrutinizes trauma in her film: relatives with war experience, grieving of the loss of a loved one. She is interested in exploring the facets of human worldview and how it changes. Eugeniya is sure that pain is the strongest document and it is necessary to talk about it in order to preserve the human aspect in oneself.
FILMOGRAPHY:
Animated documentary Partially (director, cartoonist)
Animated documentary Wandering Pain (director, cartoonist) Alexander Rastorguev Special Prize at the festival ‘Message to Man’ in 2024
Lika Alekseeva's documentary The Art and Life of Margo Ovcharenko (cartoonist)
Evgeniya Gorda was born in the village of Rodino, Altai Territory. In 2024, she graduated from the Higher School of Journalism, Tomsk State University.
She shot her first film work in 2023 at the Rudnik Festival-Lab. The animated film Partial, which was created within 10 days of the festival, became Evgeniya’s exploration of her body, family history and the loss of her father. The film was presented ias part of the competition programme at the Big Cartoon Festival, within the special screening at the Kinoproba festival and screened at Theatre.doc.
Evgeniya Gorda scrutinizes trauma in her film: relatives with war experience, grieving of the loss of a loved one. She is interested in exploring the facets of human worldview and how it changes. Eugeniya is sure that pain is the strongest document and it is necessary to talk about it in order to preserve the human aspect in oneself.
FILMOGRAPHY:
Animated documentary Partially (director, cartoonist)
Animated documentary Wandering Pain (director, cartoonist) Alexander Rastorguev Special Prize at the festival ‘Message to Man’ in 2024
Lika Alekseeva's documentary The Art and Life of Margo Ovcharenko (cartoonist)