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Film Screening: Art in Times of War
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Where
185 Nassau Street, Room 219
Princeton, NJ 08544, United States
Speakers
Iryna Tsilyk
IRYNA TSILYK (born 1982) is a Ukrainian filmmaker and writer, based in Kyiv. She is the director of the award-winning documentary film The Earth Is Blue As an Orange which won the “Directing Award” at the Sundance Film Festival 2020, as well as numerous other honors. Also, Tsilyk is known for her fiction film Rock. Paper. Grenade based on the novel Who Are You? by Ukrainian writer, and Iryna’s husband, Artem Chekh.
Moreover, Iryna Tsilyk is the author of 8 books (poetry, prose, children’s books) published in Ukraine. Many of her poems, short stories and essays have been translated into multiple languages and presented in different international publications, literary festivals and events. Over the years of Russia’s war in Ukraine, Iryna has taken part in different literary readings, documentary shootings, tutoring for children, etc. in the war zone. At the same time, her husband Artem Chekh became a soldier of Armed Forces of Ukraine twice. Iryna’s recent writing and films mostly reflect on different angles of these experiences
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Co-hosted with: Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton Institute for International & Regional Studies, Program in Contemporary European Politics and Society, Program in Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies
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