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IVAN’S LAND & ART AUCTION FOR UKRAINE PART THREE

Artists4Ukraine return to Bíó Paradis in collaboration with MaGiKa Films to screen Ivan’s Land by Andrii Lysetskyi.
Film starts at 19’00 and the silent art auction will be ongoing from 14-21.
Participating artists in the auction can be seen on artists4ukraine.com and if you are an artist looking to be part of this auction, we’re always open for submissions, just fill in the form on our website!

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Tickets for the film can be bought both in place and via artists4ukraine.com/program

Starting ticket price is 1600 ISK but you can always give more!

100 % of Ticket sales go to DOCU/HELP https://docudays.ua/eng/help/
The team of the Docudays NGO and the Docudays UA festival is raising money for various aspects of support. We have created the DOCU/HELP support fund for Ukrainian filmmakers and the festival team to tell the world about Russia’s crimes in Ukraine, support those who are documenting these crimes, and continue to introduce the world to contemporary Ukrainian culture.
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IVAN'S LAND
SHORT SYNOPSIS:
Ivan Prykhodko is one of the last folk artists of Ukraine. He is self-taught, lives in the village and everything that comes from under his brushes is naive and honest art. Ivan's world perception, his inner world is full of beauty and joy. One day Ivan's paintings are searched for in an exhibition at the Art Arsenal, the country's main exhibition center. Does he exchange a small village hut for glamorous city life, and a society of art critics and agents?
SYNOPSIS
Ivan lives a simple life in an Ukrainian village. His main occupation seems feeding his animals and working his fields … until we realize that he is one of the great artists of a dying art form. One day, an art collector shows up on Ivan’s doorstep who has heard stories about a unique painter in a remote village. Soon after, more art enthusiasts and journalists track Ivan down until they all stand in Ivan’s garden, surprised and amazed by his work. When Ivan is invited to get his works showcased in Kyiv for the first time in his life, the journey he embarks on is bigger than a man traveling from a village into the big city. Arriving at the art gallery, he faces the enthusiasm but also the urge to intellectualize his art by the contemporary art world. The expedition becomes a big success and one of Ivan’s paintings is commissioned by a large Ukrainian bank for their nationwide marketing campaign. Although urban life in the capital offers many amenities, he also feels that he is a stranger in this world. Missing home, Ivan gets back on his bike, happily smiling as he is getting back to a life that doesn’t provide the comfort of the modern world, but holds the key to his happiness, which is the source and inspiration to his art.
DIRECTOR`S STATEMENT
Being truly happy - what does that mean? Affluence? Power? Acknowledgment? Ivan, the protagonist of our documentary, lives at the edge of a small village in a house built over 100 years ago and standing on the bare ground covered with straw. Surrounded by nature, his closest friends are his dogs, cats, and goats, but one can’t find a happier man. I first met Ivan about two years ago as I heard of him being the last master of the once well-known tradition of Polissya Folk Painting.



MaGIKa – Film Company
Founded in 1992
MaGiKa Film is one of the first independent production companies in Ukraine based in Kharkiv and Kyiv.