Oleksiy Radynski, 'Special Operation'

In the organizer's words:

When Russian troops occupied Ukraine's Chornobyl nuclear power plant in the first hours of their invasion on Feb. 24, their activities were documented by surveillance cameras. They turned the site into a military base to capture the capital Kyiv, just a hundred miles away. Special Operation is based on this video footage from the site of the worst nuclear disaster in history and creates an almost disembodied examination of military logic.

The film will be followed by a Q&A moderated by Vasyl Cherepanyn (Kyiv Biennial).

Special Operation, 2025, 65 min., Ukraine/Lithuania, Director: Oleksiy Radynski, Production: Lyuba Knorozok, Kinotron Group / Studija Kinema.

Oleksiy Radynski is a filmmaker and author based in Kyiv. His films have been shown at the Berlinale, the International Film Festival Rotterdam and the Oberhausen Short Film Festival, where he received the Grand Prix for his film Chornobyl 22. His texts have been published in e-flux journal, The Atlantic and taz - die tageszeitung, among others. He has been involved in the Visual Culture Research Center in Kyiv since 2008. Radynski is also a co-founder of the filmmakers' collective Kinotron Group.

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