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Slut in the military circus

The main idea of the project encourages reflection on the value of one's life and peace through the experience of refugees, for most of whom the problem arises in the inability to fulfill their aspirations and find happiness. This is a documentary and surrealistic research of the mental states of the artist due to the impact of the war, at the time on women who became victims due to military actions and the struggle between men for power.

Drawing parallels between the historical consequences from the past of the Roman Empire led by the tyrant Caligula to the present with the war of the russian empire that attacked Ukraine in 2022 and continues till today. The author makes a poignant point about how little has changed while ordinary people continue to suffer from the loss of livelihoods in a happy future.

The story tells about an ordinary young woman who runs away from the war in Ukraine and tries to find her place and adapt in the Venise, but a terrible post-war trauma prevents the heroine from realizing her dream to be a famous actress and even removing her human identity...

  • AntiGonna Oksana Andreieva
    Director
  • AntiGonna Oksana Andreieva
    Writer
  • AntiGonStaff
    Producer
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Experimental, Feature, Short, Other
  • Runtime:
    12 minutes 35 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    August 1, 2024
  • Production Budget:
    1,000 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    Ukraine
  • Country of Filming:
    Poland
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - AntiGonna Oksana Andreieva

Under the artistic name AntiGonna and production AntiGonStaff Oksana Andreieva (b.1986, Vinnitsa, Ukraine). Independent filmmaker, artist, actress and producer. Works across media
such as: experimental documentary, video art, VR 360, theatrical performance, photo and installation. Artist explores the problems of fears, violence, death, magic rituals with new
versions of sexuality. Based in Kyiv and Warsaw, since 2022 lives and works in Paris, FR.

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Director Statement

Under an alias AntiGon Staff (Anti Gonna) I’m exploring dimen- sions of sexual fears, perversions and taboos - things that are repressed by the public opinion as the deviant traits. My work is autobiographical, but my imagery are strictly metaphorical and used as means of expression. I think taboos are keeping our minds trapped, therefore they require illumination and not omission, which should allow us to medicate or at least under- stand the repressed “I” a bit better.

The genre of my work com- bines the elements of porn and horror, in a way that neutral- izes any commercial appeal of both. Here, sexual and scary do not go hand in hand to provoke desire as seen in exploitative cinema, but overlap, poisoning the lust of the first and exhibiting cheap effects of the latter. At the same time, AnitgonStaff is a way to deal with trauma, and a ritual to keep the existen- tial dread at bay, rendering it fictional. I translate it to video form, fictional or documentary short films, supplemented with instances of performative art, virtual reality and music video.

Residencies:
2023 Instytut Teatralny im. Zbigniewa Raszewskiego. Teatr Łaźnia Nowa, Dom Utopii
/Krakow, PL/
2022 Centre international d’accueil et d’échanges des Récollets /Paris, FR/
2022 Cité Internationale des arts /Paris, FR/
2020 Coming Out of Isolation 2., supported by the Embassy of the Kingdom of Netherlands,
curated by Alina Kleitman /Kiev, UA/
2018 Z.mist. Platform TU, supported by Azov Development NGO, International
Renaissance Foundation, curated by Diana Berg /Mariupol, UA/
2017 Nad Bohom city funding USAID, curated by Leonid Marushchak, Danna Brezhnieva,
Zhenya Molyar /Vinnytsia, UA/
Solo Exhibitions:
2023 I’m not here to be stronger than you. MimosaHouse. Duo with Alyona Tokovenko,
curated by Daša Anosova, Alexandra Tryanova /London, UK/
2021 Solo exhibition Oksana - AntiGona: 13. Odessa Contemporary Art Museum, curated
by Andrew Siguntsov /Odessa, UA/
2021 Solo exhibition Velniai. KKKC Exhibition Hall, curated by Alexandra Tryanova, Darius
Vaichekauskas /Klaipeda, LT/
2021 Pasimatymas Isgirsti gallery, curated by Augustas Chi /Vilnius, LT/
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2024 Our ship is a corsair schooner. Video art of Odessa from the 90-s to today. MAXXI -
Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, curated by Andrew Siguntsov, Anna
Morokhovskaya /Rome, IT/
2023 Instinct#14 Désir. Weare. Village gallery, curated by Yves de Brabander, Eric le Rouge
/Berlin, DE/
2023 The sky will melt. Neustadt an der Weinstraße, Villa Böhm Museum, curated by
Andrew Siguntsov /Neustadt, DE/
2023 CONTEMPORARY UKRAINIAN ART IN WAR TIMES. Gedok, curated by Eugenia
Jäger, Oksana Barshynova, Marianna Djulay /Karlsruhe, DE/
2023 Once upon a queer. Platform for cultural initiatives IZOLYATSIA. Galeria Labirynt,
curated by Kateryna Filyuk, Alina Kleitman, Karol Radziszewski, Waldemar Tatarchuk /Kiev,
UA, Lublin, PL/
2022 A Letter from the Front. Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea /Turin, IT/.
Haus der Kunst /München, DE/ and Moderna Museet /Stockholm, SW/, curated by Giulia
Colletti and Nikita Kadan
2022 The Shape of Light. Anwesenheit der Künstlerin. Duo with Olena Dombrovska
/Bregenz, AU/
2022 Focus Ukrainian Artists HEK_Basel, curated by Boris Magrini, Ylia Fisch. Raves on
the Bones /Basel, SW/
2022 Ukrainian for Beginners, curated byNikolay Karabinovych. Baiat, Lucid Skin
/Antwerpen, BL/
2022 Love tales. The Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève digital platform, curated by Lesia
Kulchyska’s. Wedding - Funeral /Genève, CZ/
2022 Plato Ostrava City gallery of contemporary art, curated by Tereza Měsícová. Lucid
Skin /Prague, CZ/
2022 Mental Geographies. Zoo gallery, curated by Kristina Solomoukha /Nantes, FR/
2022 Three Voices From Ukraine. Kunsthall Trondheim, curated by Mette Woller. Lucid Skin
/Trondheim, NO/
2021 Radically Different Society. Ukrainian Institute of America, curated by Lesia
Kulchinska /Manhattan, New York, USA/
2021 FEAR. Arsenal Gallery power station, curated by Nikita Kadan, Monika Szewczyk,
Eliza Urwanowicz-Rojecka /Białystok PL/
2021 Why will there be women in Lviv? Municipal Art Center, curated by Pavlo Kovach,
Oleg Suslenko /Lviv, UA/
Awards and nominations:
2021 International Festival of New Non Fiction Narratives (FINNOF), VR filmZwierciadlo
was selected as finalist /Condor, Santa Fe, AR/
2021 Grand support by Ukrainian Culture Foundation (UKF) and Lithuanian Photographers
Association. Publication of art book Baby Book, /Klaipeda, LT, Kiev, UA/
2020 Nominee at PinchukArtCentre Prize2020, curated by Alexandra Tryanova /Kiev, UA/
Select International Film Festivals:
2024 Porn Film Festival Amsterdam /NE/
2023 17-th Berlin Porn Film Festival, (BPFF). Endless story of diseases. Kiev Porn Horrors,
part1. /Berlin, DE/
2023 L’image des plaisirs SÉANCE 44: HORREURS ET FIERTÉS. La Cinémathèque, film
Zarosli. /Paris, FR/
2023 56-th Tampere Film Festival, films Lucid Skin, Enter the war! /Tampere, Helsinki, FI/
2023 HAKER Porn Film Festival, (HPFF), films Lost in Freedom, Sboyka! /Roma, IT/
2022 33-th FID Marseille. Ukrainian Youth program, film Enter the war! /Marseille, FR/
2022 Post Pxrn Film Festival Warsaw (PPFFW), project Endless story of diseases. Kiev
Porn Horrors, part1. / Warsaw, PL/
2022-2020 Vienna Porn Film Festival, (PFFV), films Kisses in the eye, Lucid Skin, Myzion.
/Vienna, AU/
2022 Festival Na chasi, curated by Andrew Siguntsov /Kiev, UA/
2021 Make Art Not War. Teaser Future Film Festival (MANWTFFF), film Enter the War! /Los
Angeles, California, USA/
2021 Brave! Factory Festival, curated by Maria Vtorushina /Kiev, UA/
2021 Outside Festival OTEL club, curated by Andrew Siguntsov /Kiev, UA/
2020 5 Minute Film Festival, film Zwierciadlo. /Southern Maltings, UK/
2020 DNIPROPOP on Air Module Festival, curated by Daniil Galkin, Danna Brezhneva
/Dnepr, UA/
2019 4-th Horror Festival Mostra Espantomania, film Kata-Komba /San-Paulo, BR/
2019 Noc Muzeów Teatr Powszechny, Dream Adoption Society, film Kissing the eye.
Rozkwit. The Feast of One Thousand Liberation of Machines, film 13-th Nostril /Warsaw, PL/
2018 Queer Festival POMADA. Eden 8, project Endless story of diseases /Warsaw, PL/
2017 Co-founder of artistic collective OKCANAS with Oksana Kazmina. The film Zarosli was
shown in 12-th Internationale Berlin Festival, Antwerpen Queer Festival, Tel Aviv Queer Film
Festival, Queere Woche Festival Leipzig.
Performances:
2024 UKRAiNATV. Post Porn Kinky-pinky. Battle of coal and the Empire is not a mother!
Decay and decay /Krakow, PL/
2023 THE LOGIC OF VIOLENCE. Kuns Gallery and Goethe institut, curated by Łukasz
Trzciński.The Imperia is not the mother! part 2 /Krakow, PL/
2023 Performance Festival Independencies. Museum Villa Stuck. TT Collective curated by
Tetiana Kornieieva, Teresa Retzer. The fear of small humanity /Munich DE/
2023 War is not a peace 2.0. Ukraine amitié and Espace 29, curated by Denis Shdanov.
Cornes cramoisies /Bordeaux, FR/
2023 Kem and Dom Kultury Słonecznik, curated by Yulia Krivich. Muzion /Warsaw, PL/
2021 ICKRA Festival Bassiani. Extraordinary Queer Cabaret Magic Infant, curated by Alina
Kleytman, Bohdana Kosmina /Kiev, UA/
Conference presentations / Discussions:
2023 Conversations panel in the Centre Pompidou, by Paris+ Art Basel. After Antonin
Artaud: Art in time of war and nationalism /Paris, FR/
https://parisplus.artbasel.com/stories/conversations-after-antonin-artaud-art-in-time-of-war-a
nd-nationalism
2022 The symposium The Collective Body Dismembered. National Gallery of Denmark
University /Copenhagen, DN/
https://www.thecollectivebody.net/
2022 The program L'heure bleue and is broadcasted on the national station France Inter
/Paris, FR/
https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/podcasts/l-heure-bleue/l-heure-bleue-du-jeudi-24-mars
-2022-7179760
2022 EXPRESSIONS WITH FRACTIONS Castello di Rivoli /Turin, IT/
AntiGonna and Nikita Kadan - EXPRESSIONS WITH FRACTIONS - Castello di Rivoli