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Zero Position, 2022

Canadian filmmaker and photographer Louie Palu’s “Zero Position” offers a stark snapshot of war’s devastation in Eastern Ukraine. Shot in 2016, well before the 2022 invasion but at a point when Russia-allied separatists had already occupied much of the Donbas region, this impressionistic documentary does not provide much in the way of contextualizing explanation, let alone political analysis. But it has considerable potency as a record of the ruination such armed conflicts leave behind, reducing once-bustling population centers to eerily quiet (yet still perilous) wreckage.

Director : Louie Palu
Director of photography : Louie Palu
Editor : Lawrence Jackman
Composer : Alex Khaskin
Translators and fixers : Oksana Parafenuk et Pavlo Stepanenko

Production : Summit Road Films / Louie Palu et Chloe Coleman
Date: 2022

Duration : 85 minutes