Private Project

My Dad is a Lightning Researcher

My Dad is a Lightning Researcher is a documentary film reflection. A daughter attempts to decipher and memorize the "universe of her dad", a lightning researcher, whom, as it turned out after his death, she never fully got to know. Neither him nor his lasting legacy. This is her attempt to think about how long our memory lasts about the people who meant something to us, who did something and created something next to us. The film attempts to fix the fleeing clues of memory in time to keep it longer. And, of course, it is her attempt to remember everythingor at least something he was for her.

  • Iryna Shostak
    Director
  • Ella Shtyka
    Producer
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Мій тато — дослідник блискавок
  • Project Type:
    Documentary
  • Genres:
    Reflexion, biopic
  • Runtime:
    18 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    April 1, 2023
  • Country of Origin:
    Ukraine
  • Country of Filming:
    Ukraine
  • Language:
    Ukrainian
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    Yes - Indielab: documentary film program
Director Biography - Iryna Shostak

Ira Shostak is a creative communications project manager, poet, and former student of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Social Technologies of the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (sociology, public relations). Now, as a co-founder and head, she supervises the work of linza agency, creative agency, and produces personal creative projects and initiatives. Her creative work as a poet includes the poetry collection "Changeable" (“Мінлива”) and several publications in anthologies. As an artist, she exhibited her works in group projects "Procrustes and the rest" in the gallery named after O. Zamostyan and "Where I am". She participated in the poetic and musical project EVTERPA and co-organized a series of musical and lyrical readings, "White readings" (2017). She also curated the exhibition of M. Matyashova's work "About the body". My Dad is a Lightning Researcher is Iryna's debut film. She poetically documents her journey in an attempt to capture the memory of her father - her own and others.

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