An experimental short assembled from YouTube videos of the director’s former classmate, TV fragments, and a 2006 graduation interview recorded in Alchevsk. What starts as an ironic play with early-2000s home-video aesthetics slowly falls apart. Through montage of personal and online material, Chepelev tries to reconnect with a man he once loved – a man whom war and time have made almost unrecognisable. Laughter loses its protective function and gives way to the impossible wish to return to a place that no longer exists.
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Sasha Chepeliev Director
Produced in Ukraine · Languages Russian, Ukrainian · Original title Валєра: Людина-гора
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Bonevers Studio
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Ukraine
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Original title
Валєра: Людина-гора
Original language
Ukrainian
Spoken on screen
Russian · Ukrainian
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