So They Won’t Say We Don’t Remember

The film speaks about both hidden and visible elements of the post-industrial landscape of Donbas. In the film, locals, artists, and curators traverse the surface following one of the underground routes of the Novator mine. The ending point of the procession is the monument to the dead miners located just above the site of the underground accident, which led to the death of the workers and the subsequent closure of the mine in 1977. During the procession, people walk through the city, plowed fields and bushes connecting the ground and the underground space where “soil and people are intertwined in the inextricably linked choreography of the Gemeinschaft” (Gathercole, Lowenthal, 1994).