Dovzhenko Center is launching a charity course on Ukrainian animation
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The Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Center together with the Ukrainian online Institute Projector are launching a video course “A Brief History of Ukrainian Animation”. It will be charitable – all funds received will be directed to the restoration of archival films of Ukrainian cartoons.
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The curators of the course are film connoisseurs and film critics Alyona Penziiwho has been working at the Dovzhenko Center since 2018 and is a popularizer and researcher of Ukrainian cinema and animation Oleg Olifer.
Course participants will be able to deepen their knowledge not only about animation, but also about Ukrainian culture in general. The course was based on a study of the animation collection kept in the Dovzhenko Center.
| Frame from the cartoon “How Petryk Pyatochkin counted elephants” |
During the lectures, you will be able to learn about the periods of Ukrainian animation and their peculiarities, watch exclusive fragments of tapes and films that will give a deeper understanding of the history of the cartoon industry.
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| A shot from the cartoon “Like the Cossacks…” |
In the course program, the curators will talk about five periods of the history of Ukrainian animation:
- emergence in 1920–1940: advertising, propaganda and children’s stories in the first works, difficulties and clashes with the Soviet authorities;
- second birth in 1950–1970: from the death of Stalin to the influence of European animation directors and Walt Disney;
- stagnation and prosperity in the 1970s and 1980s: how in Ukrainian animation there was a place for national themes, criticism of the system and state propaganda orders;
- reconstruction and independence in 1985–2004: from the change and collapse of the Soviet political system to the challenges after the conquest and in the first decades of independent Ukraine;
- modern Ukrainian animation: how economic crises, revolutions and war affect animators, and what themes dominate their work today.
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| A frame from the cartoon “Kapitoshka” |
The course consists of six video lectures, its cost is 1,500 hryvnias. It will be available on the Projector website from October 30, 2023, but you can already register for it.
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| A frame from the cartoon “Treasure Island” |
Dovzhenko Center is the largest film archive of Ukraine, which ensures the preservation, research, popularization and restoration of the national film heritage. Member of the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF).
It was created on September 10, 1994 by the decree of the President of Ukraine. Started work in 1996. Today, more than 9,000 titles of feature, documentary, animated Ukrainian and foreign films and thousands of archival documents on the history of Ukrainian cinema are stored here.
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