Experiencing Interruptions?

Life is naive art

The nearest town to the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone is Ivankiv, home to about 8,000 people. From February 24 to April 1, Ivankiv was under Russian occupation. The occupiers bombed the museum of Maria Prymachenko, a world-renowned local artist.
Despite air raid alarms, attacks by Russian drones and missiles, power outages, and the ongoing threat from neighboring Belarus, the town continues to live.
Our story is about the residents of Ivankiv — more precisely, the children who study at the Maria Prymachenko School of Arts, where they practice music and visual arts. While creating paintings in the style of the famous artist, the children share their experiences of surviving the occupation and how the war affects their lives.

  • Olesya Morhunets-Isaienko
    Director
    2018 THE TALE OF MONEY, fairy tale, fantasy, 100 min. 2019 THE BORDERLINE. HRUBIESZOW OPERATION, documentary, 52 min. 2021 DEPORTATION 44-46, documentary, 75 min. 2021 CAROL OF THE BELLS, drama, 122 min. 2022 CRY, MY RIVER, feature documentary (production). 2023 The Last War "What's the Difference?" 2 episodes. 2024 «Budapest Memorandum. A bomb under Interdependence » documentary
  • Roman Synchuk
    Director
  • Volodymyr Ladyzhets
    Producer
  • Olesya Morgunets-Isayenko
    Creative Producer
  • Olha Havrylova
    Director of Animation
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Життя — наївне мистецтво
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Short
  • Runtime:
    26 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    March 13, 2025
  • Production Budget:
    108 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Ukraine
  • Language:
    Ukrainian
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital HD
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Olesya Morhunets-Isaienko, Roman Synchuk

Olesya Morhunets-Isaienko. Born in 1984, Ukraine. Graduate of the Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko-Kary Theatre, Cinema and Television University. Before film directing she acted as a theater director working on interpretations of modern drama in the "Week of Actual Plays". "The Great Walk" is her first play written under the influence of the war.
Awards: Her graduation film project MOLFAR (2008) won the jury award at the film festival New Cinema. XXI Century held in Moscow. Her narrative short film VIOLONCELLO participated in several international festivals:
Lviv International Short Film Festival Wiz-Art (Ukraine),
Two Riversides Film and Art Festival (Poland),
Jecheon Intl Music & Film Festival (South Korea),
Golden Apricot International Film Festival (Armenia),
Batumi International Art-House Film Festival (Georgia),
Samawa International Film Festival (Iraq).
In 2014 Olesya won Ukrainian President’s grant for developing screenplay for documentary project Music of Monocle dedicated to life and creative legacy of cinematographer Danylo Demutskyi.

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