Join us at e-flux Screening Room for “Swamps, Steppes and Souvenirs,” a group screening featuring films by Daryna Mamaisur, Oleksiy Radynski, Darya Tsymbalyuk, and ruїns collective (Teta Tsybulnyk and Elias Parvulesco). The program explores the vastness of Ukraine’s ecology and the powers—both real and imagined—that have shaped its landscape. This program is hosted by the Ukrainian Cultural Festival in collaboration with e-flux.

Environmental destruction has dramatically altered our understanding of home, place and belonging. Tracing ways in which ecological grief is reckoned with across these different contexts, the Thomas Mann House- which recently reopened after the devastating Palisades Fire- presents a conversation between Darya Tsymbalyuk (UChicago) and Ursula Heise (UCLA). Tsymbalyuk will introduce her recent book Ecocide in Ukraine: The Environmental Cost of Russia’s War, followed by a conversation with Heise about the loss of cherished places and the role of storytelling as a way of inhabiting the damaged Earth.

Join Mykola Ridnyi at e-flux Screening Room for The Kharkiv Trilogy, a screening of recent works featuring Regular Places (2015), NO! NO! NO! (2017), The District (2023), and No Regrets (2011/2016). The screening will be followed by a conversation with the artist.

Filmforum and Kyiv to LA present The Past, Present a selection of works by Mykola Ridnyi that explore collective and personal histories. Ridnyi’s video work finds powerful and widely-varying approaches to explore the impact of wars in Ukraine, from the distant past to the invasions of 2014 and today. The screening will be followed by a conversation with the artist.

For the first time in New York, artist and DJ Nikolay Karabinovych brings his collection of 45s to Bar Laika. Join Karabinovych for a journey through time and territories, from the shores of the Black Sea to the Scheldt River.

Join artists Nikolay Karabinovych, Teta Tsybulnyk, and Elias Parvulesco for a communal dinner and screening at Human Resources, followed by a conversation with the artists. We encourage guests to bring food and drinks to share in the spirit of communal gathering and solidarity. Homemade вареники (perogy) will be served!

Join us for an outdoor poolside screening and BBQ with Zhanna Ozirna featuring Encounter (2016), The Adult (2019), Grace (2017), and current work in progress, Ground Zero. Hosted by artist and writer Julia Tcharfas.

Following her 2022 text “No Milk, No Love” published in e-flux journal, Art Historian and researcher Asia Bazdyrieva will present 'Resourcification as Production of Territory”, which will expand on sociotechnical imaginaries as it pertains to Russia's ongoing war and current geopolitical rearrangements in pursuit of energy security and energy sovereignty.

Screening and lecture at California Institute of Technology with art historian and researcher Asia Bazdyrieva. Bazdyrieva will address key questions which sit at the core of Geocinema, a documentary-led research project that reframes Earth sensing and imaging processes.

Screening and conversation with VATMH Distinguished Visitor, filmmaker Dana Kavelina featuring Letter to Turtledove (2020) and her most recent work, It can't be that nothing can be returned (2022), a science fiction video set in post-war Ukraine.

Screening of Infinity According to Florian with filmmaker Oleksiy Radynski and producer Lyuba Knorozok. This film explores the legendary figure of Kyiv-based architect Florian Yuriev and recounts why capitalism is a thing of the past, and what happens when you divide one by infinity.

Discussion with art historian Asia Bazdyrieva and filmmaker Oleksiy Radynski as they expand the territory of decolonial discourse by examining Ukraine’s anti-imperial war against Russia. Presented at The University of California, the conversation is moderated by sociocultural anthropologist Laurie Kain Hart.

New York premiere of Oleksiy Radynski’s Infinity According to Florian, which explores the legendary figure of Kyiv-based architect Florian Yuriev. Following the screening will be a conversation between Radynski and e-flux Film curator Lukas Brasiskis.

Hosted by Art at the Rendon, this final program with artists Roman Khimei and Yarema Malashchuk presents Explosions Near the Museum, a film completed by the artists while in residence that features the looted aftermath of the Kherson Museum of Local Lore.

Conversation and fundraising book sale with the founders of Theater of Hopes and Expectations and publication Oberih. Joining us via livestream is Vitya Glushchenko — Oberih editor/ designer. ‘Oberih’ (in Ukrainian: ‘an item that protects’.)

Class lecture and screening at California State University with Roman Khimei and Yarema Malashchuk at California State University, moderated by artist and professor Tanya Brodsky. Open to the public.

In commemoration of the one-year anniversary of the full-scale invasion, House of Ukraine and Kyiv to LA invite guests to join artists Roman Khimei and Yarema Malashchuk for a screening in Balboa Park. Conversation will be held in Ukrainian and English.

Join us at the Institute of Contemporary Arts for the inaugural Kyiv to LA program, featuring films by Yarema Malashchuk and Roman Khimei and a potluck dinner. Films include The Wanderer (2022), How It’s Made (2021), and Dedicated to the Youth of the World II (2019), followed by a conversation with Malaschuk and curator Asha Bukojemsky. Homemade pierogi's and borscht will be served.