Ptitsa
Year
2022
Country
Poland, Ukraine
Duration
31’
Director
Alina Maksimenko
Set during the pandemic, the story unfolds in the family home of two women, a mother and her adult daughter. In one part of the house is the mother's music school, which she runs online. She is a piano teacher, a strong and organised woman who only has contact with her students, and therefore has an endless sea of children around her. The other part of the building houses the daughter's painting studio. The two worlds rarely come into contact with one another, constituting a metaphor for human loneliness. Ultimately, however, the protagonists are brought together by the story of the death of Katya, the daughter of their friend Inna.
Production
Wajda Studio (Filip Marczewski, Katarzyna Madaj-Kozłowska), Wajda School, Alina Maksimenko
Director
Alina Maksimenko
Alina Maksimenko is an artist born in Kyiv, Ukraine. She is a painter, film director and director of photography.
During 1985-1988 she studied at the T.G Shevchenko Art School. In 1993 she graduated from the M. Boychuk Art College in Kyiv. In 2014 she showed her first video installation at the Kyiv Arsenal. She also finished the documentary film directing speciality at the Radio Broadcasting and Press Institute in 2019 under Serhiy Bukovsky. She graduated from the DOK PRO educational programme at the Wajda School in 2020. She has been a member of the BG-Art. Union of Artists since 2001, and a member of the Union of Painters of Ukraine since 2003. The director lives and works in Ukraine. She left Irpin during the occupation and returned to the city when it was liberated. Now she is shooting her second documentary project, a feature entitled Stitched Steps.
