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Enter Through the Balcony

Roman Blazhan
2020 year
drama
26
ukr, rus
eng, ger
4k
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Enter Through The Balcony is a Documentary Short about Ukrainian make-shift balconies. The film explores the phenomenon of the balcony as a small architectural form. Enter Through The Balcony is a journey through the decades. It is a look inside balconies and their owners in cities across Ukraine. It is a balanced and in depth view of the balconies from their owners, employees of city councils, historians, sociologists, urbanists, developers and architects. Through the history of the balconies film explores the history of Post-Soviet Ukraine — life, culture, and the relationships between personal and public space in cities. 

An engaging love letter to Ukraine and its people, Enter Through the Balcony examines how architecture can be a curious pathway to a deeper understanding of culture and place.

 

 

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Jarren Butterworth
I love it! I've always had a strong attraction to these balconies, they allow individual human expression on huge uniform buildings. When we think of a cozy street of classic little row houses, what is attractive is the fine-grained architecture of it all. Every house is a little different, even if they were built the same. Different paint, different renovations, different decorations, different shapes. Each house is clearly lived in by humans who have expressed themselves through the facade of their home. But in large multi-family buildings, this very human need to express and claim the space is often restricted. Specially in the west there is an obsession with keeping multi-family buildings looking exactly how they were when built. If you can enclose a balcony it must be done by the same company so each enclosure is identical, and on newer buildings it's always outright banned. They even restrict storage on the balconies, restrict what sort of blinds you can use, they want to keep everything as uniform as an office block. Yes, many of the enclosures we see in the documentary are rather ramshackle, but that is mostly because Ukraine is a poor country and the residents doing the work have had to make-do with what materials they could "find". I wish these hyper-individual enclosures were much more the norm in the west, they allow personal expression and customization of one's living space even for folks in multi-family buildings. Done with a few basic rules for safety of construction but otherwise entirely up to the owner. It turns the facade of a multi-family building from a monotonous repetitive inhuman form into an organic vertical street of individual humans. But instead in the west we are told "you can't store your bike on your balcony, it looks ulgy". The fact that living humans reside in a building is a shameful truth we seek to hide, the uniformity and dignity of the non-living structure is put ahead of its human parasites. In much of the west, the perfect ideal of a residential building would be one free of all humans. I much rather see the human residents celebrated.
Anastasiya Demyanyk
Дякую! Дуже душевне кіно вийшло) і над паразитною архітектурою справді варто задуматись)
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Olya Yevtushevska
дуже вау дуже теплий і атмосферний фільм
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Ernest Holovlov
Неможливо передати почуття після перегляду цього фільму. Красіва картінка, атмосферні балкони. Ну бомба, правда!!
Любомир
ФІльм сподобався. Особливо режисерська та операторські роботи. Дякую)
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Віталій Пітвало
Сподобався фільм, цікавий показ сучасности
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Руслана Дзюра
Чудовий фільм. Респект автрам,зуміли знайти родзинку у такій банальній речі як балкон. Усе у фільмі органічне-і роздуми пересічних людей, і висновки спеціалістів, зйомки їх саме на балконах та у різних містах України.Відчувається, що автори творили свій проект з великою любов'ю.Дякую за можливість стати трохи митцем теж, адже тепер я часто зупиняю погляд на балконах будинків свого міста, щоб уявно продовжити вашу стрічку.
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J A
A truly beautiful and interesting look into this cultural phenomenon and the people who live within it!
Ліля Винницька
Дякую усім причетним до створення цього фільму! Дуже атмосферно і дещо ностальгійно за особливими моментами, жартами, розмовами, які за кавою і цигарками, завжди оживали... на балконі, звичайно. Львівські балкони до сьогоднішнього дня зберегли цей шарм.
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Неля Товстоп’ят
Зображення і персонажі проймають неймовірною ностальгією за теплом життя у таких багатоквартирках. Теж захотілось осмислити для себе важливість балкону: заскляного чи ні :)