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Black Hole

"Black Hole" is accessible in 5 languages (English, German, French, Spanish, Ukrainian) and recounts a vision of war grounded in daily life, in Ukraine, creating a choir of voices sharing their connections with creativity, roots and inner groove.
The voices of over 30 performing arts' artists are united in one voice to give a poetical, resilient, experimental and inspiring answer to aggression. The narrative is based on over 80 hours of testimonies recorded from February 2022 to August 2024 and the images were shot throughout Ukraine, from West to East, during Summer 2024.
The whole stimulates powerful inner thoughts and reflections to move on.

  • Madeleine Bongard
    Director
  • Madeleine Bongard
    Writer
  • Madeleine Bongard
    Producer
  • Taisiia Druzenko
    Producer
  • Alina Zevakova
    Key Cast
  • Anja Ikonnikova
    Key Cast
  • Anabel Sotelo Ramires
    Key Cast
  • Taisiia Druzenko
    Key Cast
  • Yulya Lukyanets
    Key Cast
  • Anton Dmytruk
    Cinematographer
  • Maria Rakhmanova
    Cinematographer
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Experimental, Feature, Web / New Media
  • Runtime:
    1 hour 30 minutes 20 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    January 1, 2025
  • Production Budget:
    35,000 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    Ukraine
  • Country of Filming:
    Ukraine
  • Language:
    English, French, German, Spanish, Ukrainian
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital (4k)
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Madeleine Bongard

Everything seemed destined for Madeleine Bongard to work alongside Ukraine. From a trip in January 2016 that opened the country's doors to her emerged a number of rich human and artistic encounters.
Madeleine’s approach to art is multi-disciplinary. She believes art can counter binary visions of life. Therefore, she loves to offer a wide range of sensorial possibilities to her audience : her shows, books and movies explore the complexity of relationships, the inner worlds of feeling and imagination, the pleasure of the musicality of life and the emergence of poetic aesthetics. Ears, eyes, breathe and touch are awakened.
She has been working in and with Ukraine for the first time in 2016, and ever since. Madeleine is a Swiss artist, based in Switzerland and France, working as a lead actress, director, author and pedagogue.

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Director Statement

"Black Hole" is a multiformat artistic project based on a journalistic research. Through art, we inform of a human reality. By waking up empathy and hope, we inspire to be active. We reset a poetical approach of life, in which daily routine meets ancestral roots, folk music, a philosophical reflexion and Maria Primachenko.
*Please note the movie uploaded is not the final one but a diary of its process of creation, thank you*