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Room of the Absolute: “Natalie and Elizabeth trusted me to show my reality through my own eyes, and I trusted them to find meaning in what I filmed.” Alla Hurenko
In this vHopeful Conversation, I talk with co-directors Natalie Shirinian and Elizabeth Baudouin about how a friendship that began on Instagram turns into Room of the Absolute. The film came out of a painting by Pazza Pennello (Alla Hurenko) shipped to them from Ukraine just as the full-scale war began, and her messages about the bombs outside her window grew into the diary she films on her iPhone while they direct her from Brooklyn. We discuss why they never want the war to define her, and why they choose a soft, feminine point of view instead of the heavy-metal images of war we're used to…
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