Liturgy of Anti-Tank Obstacles

Director: Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk

Country: USA, Ukraine

Year of production: 2022

Duration: 12 min

Subject:

Human rights
The citizen and the state

Audience:

Activists / NGOs
Journalists

Ukrainians change professions and adapt to wartime needs. Sculptors fabricate anti-tank obstacles in their art workshops. Just like the Terracotta Army, silent figures of Ukrainian personalities, angels, Cossacks, and multiple copies of Jesus Christ are frozen in anticipation of new creations. Craftsmen weld metal defense items for the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

director

Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk

Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk — Ukrainian author and filmmaker, graduated from the Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko-Kary Theatre, Cinema and Television University. Participant of the Berlinale Talents, Locarno Film Academy, he is the founder of the script platform Terrarium. His first feature, Pamfir, was selected at Cannes Film Festival Directors’ Fortnight in 2022.