The Cinema of Olaa Zhyzhko:
Just Drifting + Olaa’s Ark
The UK premiere of two short films by Olaa Zhyzhko, a filmmaker born in Kyiv, now living and working in Paris. In Olaa’s Ark, the self is mediated through filmmaking, the director in front of a camera, in the now recognisable mode of autofiction, negotiating her own image under its gaze. Just Drifting inverts this: an intimate, immersive portrait in which a character does not watch herself but dissolves into her circumstances.