Mimesis Documentary Festival: We Survived By Accident

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A program of shorts by Dana Kavelina

Animation becomes a practice of resurrection in Dana Kavelina’s cinema, where collage, stop-motion, and archival fragments reanimate forgotten histories. People speak from mass graves and coal mines of the Donbas, rising to haunt us anew. Dolls begin to move, photographs flicker, and buried voices return to relay histories erased by official narratives. Negotiating grief and utopia, Dana Kavelina’s films imagine remembrance not as a fixed record of the past but as an ongoing act of repair. In these reanimated half-worlds, the dead remain present, asking us to carry their stories toward a more just future.

Program:

Mark Tulip, who spoke with flowers (2018, 15′)

Letter to a Turtledove (2020, 21’)

it cannot be that nothing can be returned (2022, excerpt – 15′)

Grey Earth (2026, 32′)