Join us at e-flux Screening Room for “Swamps, Steppes and Souvenirs,” a group screening featuring films by Daryna Mamaisur, Oleksiy Radynski, Darya Tsymbalyuk, and ruїns collective (Teta Tsybulnyk and Elias Parvulesco). The program explores the vastness of Ukraine’s ecology and the powers—both real and imagined—that have shaped its landscape. Unearthing deeply layered histories and personal narratives, the films address Russian imperialism, western romanticization, and memories rooted in loss and discovery. This program is hosted by the Ukrainian Cultural Festival in collaboration with e-flux.

Environmental destruction has dramatically altered our understanding of home, place and belonging. Tracing ways in which ecological grief is echoed and reckoned with across these different contexts, the Thomas Mann House- which recently reopened after the devastating Palisades Fire- presents a conversation between Darya Tsymbalyuk (University of Chicago) and Ursula Heise (UCLA). The conversation will open with Tsymbalyuk introducing her recent book Ecocide in Ukraine: The Environmental Cost of Russia’s War (Polity, 2025) and sharing poignant accounts of witnessing ecocide in her homeland of Ukraine. Drawing connections between Ukrainian experiences and the scarred lands of the Pacific Palisades, Tsymbalyuk and Heise will discuss the loss of cherished places and examine the role of storytelling and cultural imaginations in ways of inhabiting the damaged Earth.

Join Mykola Ridnyi at the e-flux Screening Room on Tuesday, October 1 for The Kharkiv Trilogy, a screening of recent works featuring Regular Places (2015), NO! NO! NO! (2017), The District (2023), and the earlier work No Regrets (2011/2016). The screening will be followed by an in-person conversation with the artist.

Filmforum partners with Kyiv to LA to present The Past, Present a selection of works by Mykola Ridnyi that explore collective and personal histories. Ridnyi’s video work finds powerful and widely-varying approaches to explore the impact of wars in Ukraine, from the distant past to the invasions of 2014 and today. 

For the first time in New York, artist and DJ Nikolay Karabinovych brings his collection of 45s to Bar Laika. A long journey through time and territories from the shores of the Black Sea to the Scheldt River.

Join artists Nikolay Karabinovych, Teta Tsybulnyk, and Elias Parvulesco for a communal dinner and screening of 6 short films, followed by a conversation with all three artists. We encourage guests to bring food and drinks to share in the spirit of communal gathering and solidarity. Homemade вареники (perogy) will be served!

Outdoor screening with Zhanna Ozirna featuring Encounter (2016), The Adult (2019), Grace (2017), and current work in progress, Ground Zero. Hosted by artist and writer Julia Tcharfas, this event celebrates the culmination of Kyiv to LA’s 2023 programming.

Art historian and researcher Asia Bazdyrieva will speak about resourcification, extractivist policies, and the sociotechnical imaginaries of the future as a follow-up to her 2022 e-flux article, No Milk, No Love.

Screening and lecture at California Institute of Technology with art historian and researcher Asia Bazdyrieva. Bazdyrieva will address key questions which sit at the core of Geocinema — a documentary-led research project that reframes Earth sensing and imaging processes.

Screening and conversation with VATMH Distinguished Visitor, filmmaker Dana Kavelina featuring two films: Letter to Turtledove (2020) and her most recent work, It can't be that nothing can be returned (2022), a science fiction video set in post-war Ukraine.

Screening of Infinity According to Florian with filmmaker Oleksiy Radynski and producer Lyuba Knorozok. This film explores the legendary figure of Kyiv-based architect Florian Yuriev and recounts why capitalism is a thing of the past, and what happens when you divide one by infinity.

Discussion with art historian Asia Bazdyrieva and filmmaker Oleksiy Radynski as they expand the territory of decolonial discourse by examining Ukraine’s anti-imperial war against Russia. Presented at The University of California, the conversation is moderated by sociocultural anthropologist Laurie Kain Hart.

New York premiere of Oleksiy Radynski’s Infinity According to Florian followed by a conversation between Radynski and e-flux Film curator Lukas Brasiskis.

Hosted by Art at the Rendon, this final program with artists Roman Khimei and Yarema Malashchuk presents Explosions Near the Museum, a film completed by the artists while in residence that features the looted aftermath of the Kherson Museum of Local Lore.

Reconstructing creativity at times of war: Conversation and book sale with the founders of Theater of Hopes and Expectations and publication Oberih.

Class lecture and screening with Roman Khimei and Yarema Malashchuk at California State University, moderated by artist Tanya Brodsky. Open to the public.

Screening and conversation with Roman Khimei and Yarema Malashchuk to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the full-scale invasion, with the House of Ukraine in Balboa Park. Conversation will be held in Ukrainian and English.

Join us at the Institute of Contemporary Arts for the inaugural Kyiv to LA program, featuring films by Yarema Malashchuk and Roman Khimei. The evening will commence with a potluck dinner and screening of The Wanderer (2022), How It’s Made (2021), and Dedicated to the Youth of the World II (2019), followed by a conversation with Yarema Malaschuk and curator Asha Bukojemsky. Homemade pierogi's and borscht will be served.