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The intro and Q&A at both screenings will include ASL interpretation.

An unsettling dispatch from our dystopian present, The Longer You Bleed probes the psychological toll of constant exposure to traumatic content, here taking the form of social media images from the war in Ukraine. This engrossing exercise is the result of an intimate collaboration between filmmaker Ewan Waddel and his partner Liuba, a 20-something Ukrainian woman now living in Berlin. Like many of her displaced compatriots, Liuba’s Instagram feed has become a fraught space, regularly serving up horrifying footage of her ravaged homeland. As compassion fatigue sets in, she and her friends embrace absurdist humour—seemingly the default coping mechanism of our terminally online age. Waddel, in turn, borrows the tone and style of user-generated media, an apt frame for this reflexive effort to reckon with an increasingly inhuman information environment. While the stakes for Liuba and her peers are deeply personal, their growing sense of alienation is powerfully resonant. Julian Carrington.

Content Warning: Flashing images and images of war, dead and dismembered bodies.

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Credits

  • Director(s)

    • Ewan Waddell
  • Producer(s)

    • Liubov Dyvak
    • Ewan Waddell
  • Executive Producer(s)

    • Ewan Waddell
  • Research

    • Uma Chaghaghi
    • Lars Holgate
  • Writer(s)

    • Ewan Waddell
  • Editor(s)

    • Ewan Waddell
  • Cinematography

    • Ewan Waddell
  • Composer

    • Maria Kebuladze
  • Audio Mixing & Additional Sound Design

    • Alexander Dähling
  • Sound

    • Ewan Waddell
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