UKRAINE

This film was not easy to make. How do you represent the sufferings of people at war? How do you create momentum when a war in Ukraine doesn’t make sense? I decided to leave the film I made on my iPhone for a long time until the time was right—the time is right now.

Seven print-operators dead. Everything destroyed. A Heidelberg 10-color machine and its operators blasted with glass from an incoming missile.

Aggression like the ones we see on TV, in the news, and on the Internet; most people in Ukraine are sick and tired of the films and the pictures. Casualties in the hundreds of thousands. Casualties that haven’t done anything besides being people living in a power momentum mostly led by evil men. Politicians, priests, and influencers cause wars, but rarely the people – and here, just a few days before the inauguration of Donald Trump in the US, the time has never been more divided, and he and his allies thrive. The fear, the uncertainty, the upbuilding of us and them has never been worse, and all driven by populations that have more information available than ever – and yet, media are not trusted, governments aren’t trusted, judges are not trusted – and some people believe more in the radical podcast host than in data, statistics, processes, and even science.

The world has become a pick-and-choose buffet where you pick the truth that fits your agenda.

Trump claims that the war in Ukraine doesn’t belong to Americans. You can argue that distance makes a European matter, but that’s not the reason. The real reason is that democracies and the so-called free world are global and that the few countries still have democracies should stand up and protect – despite the distance, and not related to any simple man who believes everything is a bargain.

This is my journey to Ukraine – a war Russia can not be allowed to win.

Production supported by Heidelberg & Cloudprinter.com
Heidelberg also supplied all spare parts to Faktor-Druk for free.