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Olya Korsun—The West Pole: Imaginary Geographies Screening (every 40 mins)
Former Courthouse (FFF)
Parnassusweg 220
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Get directionsThu 09.06.2022
11:20am — 8:40pm
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The West Pole: Imaginary Geographies. Conversation with director and researcher Olya Korsun
Former Courthouse (FFF)
Parnassusweg 220
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Get directionsThu 09.06.2022
6pm — 6:30pm
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Olya Korsun—The West Pole: Imaginary Geographies Screening (every 40 mins)
Former Courthouse (FFF)
Parnassusweg 220
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Get directionsFri 10.06.2022
11:20am — 8:40pm
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The West Pole: Imaginary Geographies. Conversation with director and researcher Olya Korsun
Former Courthouse (FFF)
Parnassusweg 220
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Get directionsFri 10.06.2022
6pm — 6:30pm
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Olya Korsun—The West Pole: Imaginary Geographies Screening (every 40 mins)
Former Courthouse (FFF)
Parnassusweg 220
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Get directionsSat 11.06.2022
11:20am — 8:40pm
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The West Pole: Imaginary Geographies. Conversation with director and researcher Olya Korsun
Former Courthouse (FFF)
Parnassusweg 220
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Get directionsSat 11.06.2022
4pm — 4:30pm
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Olya Korsun—The West Pole: Imaginary Geographies Screening (every 40 mins)
Former Courthouse (FFF)
Parnassusweg 220
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Get directionsSun 12.06.2022
11:20am — 8:40pm
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The West Pole: Imaginary Geographies. Conversation with director and researcher Olya Korsun
Former Courthouse (FFF)
Parnassusweg 220
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Get directionsSun 12.06.2022
2pm — 2:30pm
Olya entered FForFact with an ambition of producing an epic drama about the mysterious wildermans, but ended up bewildering herself. During the program she researched wilderness, history of noses, mutant flowers, and nature blindness. Graduating with a film about her expedition to the West Pole, Olya hopes to continue her inquiry into speculative narratives, ecological thinking and imaginary geographies.
As the magnetic poles of our planet are rapidly moving and the axis of the Earth is oscillating in a permanent wobble, the constants of geographical knowledge start to oscillate as well and the geographies, as we know them, shift, accidentally opening up liminal, in-between spaces. One of such liminal spaces is The West Pole.
A nameless protagonist travels with no map or plan through the landscape of The West Pole, full of chance encounters, bizarre creatures, and apparitions. Every other day brings her only more bewilderment – shadows of dinosaurs and singing dunes, tourists hunting for worms and fierce winds bending metal, nature blindness and mysterious cows floating in the darkness. She leaves behind a box of 16 mm films and travel diaries. The present film attempts to arrange together the materials of the expedition archive and reconstruct this hypnotizing and somewhat futile odyssey.