These days, the world is equal in confusion. What will tomorrow be like? Are we going to have jobs? Are we going to be uprooted? Are we going to be alive at all? These questions have become a new norm all over the globe. Still, they are nothing new for many of us—those of us who in Spring 2020 were already inhabiting the vast parts of the globe ravaged by wars. So, as authoritarian rulers everywhere are declaring the first-ever war on a non-human entity, some of us humans, having lived through a real war, are more equal in this confusion than others.

War and Cinema is a program convened by Oleksiy Radynski as part of Artist Cinemas, a long-term, online series of film programs curated by artists for e-flux Video & Film. War and Cinema will run for six weeks from June 17 through July 29, 2020, screening a new film each week accompanied by an interview with the filmmaker.

FA will be screening our investigation, The Battle of Ilovaisk, from Wednesday 1 July – Tuesday 7 July 2020 which will be followed by an interview by Oleksiy Radynski.