Fractured
"Fractured" is a short experimental video collage that combines original synthesizer music with a fast-paced montage of personal footage from the filmmaker’s life. It spans his childhood and teenage years in Ukraine, through his displacement as a refugee, and into his current life in the U.S. The piece is a reflection on the feeling of disconnection from one’s past, the abrupt loss of people and places, the loneliness that follows, and what it means to look back at a life that feels like it belonged to someone else.
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Mykyta KravčenkoCreatorMe, Dad, Niu-York
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Project Type:Experimental, Music Video, Short, Web / New Media, Other
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Runtime:1 minute 33 seconds
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Completion Date:July 26, 2025
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Country of Origin:Ukraine, United States
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Country of Filming:United States, Czechia, Ukraine
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Language:No Dialogue
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Aspect Ratio:16:9
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Film Color:Color
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First-time Filmmaker:No
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Student Project:No
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Digital Cinema Package:Unavailable
Mykyta Kravčenko is a Ukrainian filmmaker, photographer and artist, born in 2004 in Donetsk, Ukraine. He moved to Ukriane's capital Kyiv in 2014 due to the first Russian invasion. In 2018, he studied acting at the Kyiv Theater Studio "11" and later majored in audiovisual arts and production at the Kyiv Film and New Media Academy. After the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, he fled to Prague, Czech Republic, where he freelanced as a photographer and videographer, and also worked briefly at a VFX post-production studio, before moving to the US in May 2022. There he freelanced in Washington, D.C. and worked at a local camera rental company. In February 2023, he enrolled in the film program at Full Sail University in Winter Park, Florida. After graduating with an associate degree, he moved to New York City to pursue his film career further.
This piece was never supposed to happen. It wasn’t planned as a project or intended to be shared. It began with a melody – something that came to me unexpectedly while playing around with my 1980’s Yamaha synthesizer. The sound of a newly created melody felt like memory and bitter nostalgia. I kept playing, and the emotion grew stronger, until I realized this piece of music wasn’t just a tune but a trigger that made me want to create this video-work.
“Fractured” is a deeply personal audio-visual reflection on the years I lived in Ukraine, the people I loved, the moments I thought would last, and the irreversible rupture of leaving it all behind. I became a refugee in 2022. Everything before that now feels like the life of another person. The video is an attempt to reclaim that person, to remind myself that he was me.
The structure of the piece is simple: I begin playing the original synth melody, and over it, a rapid montage of archival footage from my own life appears – videos from my childhood, early teens, and post-displacement years. The images are raw and unfiltered, not meant to be cinematic or polished. They are simply fragments of a life.
But the final slideshow sequence shifts. The faces of people around me disappear. This is intentional – it represents the fading memory, and my realization that these people are gone either physically, emotionally or both. Some I lost to war. Some to time. Some to life taking us in opposite directions.
More than anything, this work is about loneliness. The deep, aching loneliness that follows you even when you’re surrounded by others. The kind that shows up when you lose your home, your cultural context, and your sense of continuity. That loneliness haunted me after I left Ukraine. And this piece is me learning to live with it.
This work is not a film in the traditional sense. It’s not trying to tell a story. It’s a feeling. It’s an emotional wave made of sound and image, rooted in one refugee’s attempt to make sense of a life split into before and after. It’s about remembering without resolution.
