"I was Hamlet. I stood on the coast and spoke with the surf BLABLA. At my back, the ruins of Europe." In free dive, in the manner of the Ophelia/Electra of Heiner Müller's Hamletmachine (1977) which accompanies the story plot, we set out into the ruins of a Europe set adrift. Guided by Faustine du Couvent, a young Parisian woman with a dark and poetic energy, The Ruins of Europe is an eminently personal object that unfurls nervously, with the aid of archive television images, in order to draw the portrait of a society that is falling apart. “Television. Daily nausea. Nausea. Prepared verbiage. A prescribed good mood. How is wellbeing written?" Saturated with images to express the excess of violence, fascism and rebellion in all its forms, a film located between a manifesto and a shout, ambitious and uncompromising. Ira A. Goryainova moves bravely forward, blindly, too lucid, in the darkness of a world that is shared between those who still believe and those who, having given up, live with desperate nonchalance. (Emilie Bujès)

(2017)
hybrid docufiction, 47 min.

director, producer, writer & editor - Ira A. Goryainova
featuring - Faustine Thibon
cinematography - Patrick Stevens
music - hypnoskull
artistic mentor - Peter Krüger

FESTIVALS

Visions du Réel, Switzerland
DokumentART, Germany
UNDOX, Austria
Oberhausen, Germany (market screening)
Theater Aan Zee (TAZ), Belgium

VAF Wildcard award for the best documentary

EXHIBITIONS

COM nu TIES (ISELP and ARGOS)
Brussels Museums Nocturnes 2017 - ARGOS

Europe: Ancient Future - HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark
Graz, Austria

SCREENINGS:

Müllersalon #6 - International Heiner Müller Gesellschaft - Deutsches Theater, Berlin, Germany
Salaam Cinema, Baku, Azerbaijan
ARGOS TV, Brussels, Belgium


in the collection and distribution of ARGOS, Centre for Audiovisual Arts