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A BLURRED POINT OF LIGHT Ukraine 2022 – 2024

UKRAINE – FRANCE | 2022 – 2024

A blurred point of light was broadcast on France Culture on February 24, 2024, two years to the day after the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

This radio creation, conceived by Ukrainian journalist Evgenia Rudenko and French director Alexandre Plank, was written and recorded by and with Ukrainian authors, writers, actors, journalists and sound engineers living under the bombardments, on the front or in exile.

This project is the result of a long period of work with men and women to whom we wanted to give the means – human, technical and financial – to recount and archive the day-to-day life of a country at war. Through radio, we wanted as many people as possible to hear their texts (some of which were written and sent to us by SMS from the front line), their voices (sometimes recorded with a simple telephone) and their stories (which capture the way in which war sets ablaze what is most intimate in us).

The texts you’ll hear were written especially for this program by Ukrainian authors, scriptwriters, poets and playwrights. The documentary parts were recorded with civilian populations between Lviv, Kyiv and Boutcha. The Ukrainian actors were recorded in Ukraine or in France, where they live in exile. Each of the sounds and soundscapes that make up this creation were recorded in different cities across Ukraine by Ukrainian sound engineers.

GIVING UKRAINIAN ARTISTS A VOICE

TEXTS : Ma mère est vieux jeu de Ludmyla Tymoshenko (Людмила Тимошенко) Un point de lumière flou d’Artem Cheh (Артем Чех) Les yeux de Marioupol d’Anastasia Dmytruk (Анастасія Дмитрук) Parler, chanter d’Iryna Tsilyk (Ірина Цілик) Une mustang blanche explose de Sofia Andrukhovych (Софія Андрухович) Violette de Maskym Kryvstov (Максим Кривцов)

With: Mariia Kyrychenko (Марія Кириченко), Hanna Kuzina (Ганна Кузіна), Nastia Burdeina (Анастасія Бурдейна), Evgenia Rudenko (Євгенія Руденко), Artem Cheh (Артем Чех), Olga Koreva (Ольга Корева), Dmytro Medianıy (Дмитро Медяний), Danylo Chankov (Данило Чанков), Angelina Pashyna (Ангеліна Пашина), Olga Kwiatkowska (Ольга Квятковська)

And Irène Jacob, Laure Calamy, Maud Wyler, Audrey Bonnet, Antoine Berry-Roger

Production : Evgenia Rudenko (Євгенія Руденко) Réalisation : Alexandre Plank Création sonore : Antoine Berry-Roger

Technical team: Maria Nesterenko (Марія Нестеренко), Evgenia Rudenko (Євгенія Руденко), Manuel Couturier and Titouan Oheix

Assistant director: Justine Dibling

Texts translation: Evgenia Rudenko, Laure Egoroff, Alexandre Plank, Iryna Bonin Dmytrychyn and Nastasia Dahuron

Literary advisor: Céline Geoffroy

Many thanks to Diane Emdin and the Create Joy Foundation for their support.

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