"Soviet cartoons" or national school: who does Ukrainian animation belong to?
"Soviet cartoons" or national school: who does Ukrainian animation belong to?
Anastasiia Kanivets

07.09 | 16:30 (EEST)

"Kind Soviet cartoons" – this is probably the most famous definition of Soviet animation among the general public. Few people think that "Soviet cartoons" were actually created by national, pretty self-contained animation schools of various USSR republics. Ukrainian school was one of them and was one of the leading ones. The cult films "Alice in Wonderland", "Adventures of Captain Wrongel", "Treasure Island", etc., were created by this school. Yevhen Syvokin, Davyd Cherkaskyi, Yefym Pruzhanskyi and many other bright representatives of original animation were and are Ukrainian masters.  Film researcher Anastasiia Kanivets will talk about the peculiarities of the Ukrainian animation school and its complex relationship with the Soviet film production system. We hope our lecture will turn into a fruitful discussion about the development of Ukrainian animation!

Anastasiia Kanivets is a film researcher. In 2012, she graduated from the National University of "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy" (speciality: cultural studies). In 2012-2015, she studied at the graduate school of the Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko-Karyi Theatre, Cinema and Television University. Since 2012, she has been a senior researcher at the film department of the Museum of Theatre, Music and Film Arts of Ukraine and a correspondent (since 2017 - deputy editor) of the "Kino-Teatr" magazine. In 2012–2015, she was one of the moderators of the Film Club of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.

Author of articles about Ukrainian animation in the "Kino-Teatr" magazine, co-author of the publication: L. Briukhovetska, A. Kanivets. Ukrainian animation / Larysa Briukhovetska, Anastasiia Kanivets. - Kyiv: Fenix, 2018. - 264 p.