Slovo House (2017)
- Original title
- Будинок «Слово»
- Directed by
- Taras Tomenko
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- Ukraine
- Runtime
- 1h 21m
- Rating
- 7.0 of 10 from 3 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
The film tells the story of a building in Ukraine that was built as a home for artists and writers. It had modern comforts but was also filled with secret surveillance that harmed the people living there.
historicalsomberclaustrophobicinformativeunsettlingcontemplativeslow-paced
What happens
Slovo House (Ukrainian: «Будинок "Слово"», romanized: Budynok 'Slovo') is a 2017 Ukrainian documentary film directed by Taras Tomenko and written by Lyuba Yakimchuk. The film shows the history of a controversial house designed for Ukrainian cultural figures, one that had many amenities, but also extensive network of surveillance, which negatively affected the psychic of many of its inhabitants. The Ukrainian premiere of the film took place on October 27, 2017 in Kharkiv, Ukraine. The film participated in the official competition program of the 33rd Warsaw International Film Festival in 2017. In 2018, the film won the Ukrainian National Film Award "Golden Dzyga" in the category "Best Documentary" (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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