The Gallery on Steinbarg Street in Chernivtsi brought the city’s documentary lovers together. The organizers of the Travelling Festival presented the film Gogol Doc by Alisa Pavlovskaya to the audience.

Gogol Doc is a metaphorical construction of the Tower of Babel, which symbolises the alliance of people for the sake of one global dream. In this case, a dream is to open and run the 10th GOGOLFEST Festival of Art in Kyiv, Ukraine. The festival has practically no state financial support. The creative society, although seemingly aimed at creation, is not always capable of dialogue with itself. Gogol Doc tells how art is created; it shows the backstage and the theatre's daily life. It also shows the crisis of creativity and raises questions...

“The film touches on three topics which are sore spots of the cultural processes in Ukraine. The first is the existence of two cultures in the same physical space, the formal ‘sharovary style’ and the underground, which live according to different laws. The former’s representatives are hostages to the heritage of the Soviet administration system and have access to resources, while the latter are flexible and independent, but constantly looking for funding. The second layer is the way cultural management is being built by evolution, how a curator and an art manager emerge from the needs of the process, what kind of relationship they have with the artist. And the third is about constructing the audience, about creating new meanings and the lack of those meanings in society,” believes Dmytro Mitsevych, the coordinator of the Travelling Festival in Chernivtsi.