Join us for a special evening at Greatorex Street Gallery with a screening of Iron Butterflies by Roman Liubyi, presented as part of Noel Faucett’s photography exhibition Beloved.
In summer 2014, sunflower fields and coal mines in eastern Ukraine turn into a 12 square kilometers crime scene. A multi-layered investigation into the downing of flight MH17, in which a butterfly-shaped shrapnel found in the pilot's body implicated the state responsible for a war crime that remains unpunished.
Step by step, Roman Liyubyi’s collage of archive material, news and social media clips as well as dramatised and animated elements lays bare the strategies behind this hybrid warfare, and exposes the mechanisms that were used to create a dense smokescreen around the true political and military situation. A painful lesson in revelation that also helps us to better understand the present.
The film will be screened with English subtitles. Screening will take place in the exhibition space of Greatorex Street Gallery.
The screening is free and open to everyone. Donations are welcome and will go directly to grassroots organisations in Ukraine. If you’d like to contribute, please select the donation option in the tickets section.
