🎤 The films are shown in English with Ukrainian subtitles.
Danylo Hauk is a director and screenwriter from Lviv, who has been working in the field of short and documentary films for over ten years.
From 2016 to 2019, he studied in the master's program at the Dodge College of Film and Media Arts in California (USA), where he created four short fiction films and one documentary.
In his subsequent career, Danylo has focused on screenwriting, including developing a script for a feature film about the origins of the Russian-Ukrainian war in Donbas in the coming-of-age drama genre. However, the development of this project was halted due to active military operations in the filming locations.
Currently, Danylo is working on several personal fiction projects. One of them, All Our Wars, will tell the turbulent story of a Ukrainian living in Los Angeles.
An Attempt To Resolve
Director: Danylo Hauk
Country: USA/Ukraine
Duration: 38
In a distorted creeping reflection on the global urge for urgent solutions (urge for urgent!), using myriads of seemingly unrelated imagery filmed for three years across the world from Los Angeles to Donbas, the filmmaker Danylo Hauk compiles a fabric of modern (Western?) civilization: Stuck in a loop of short-sightedness and deceit 'the good citizen' struggles to approach an escalating anthropoceneous (Anthropocene?) catastrophe. Unable to "resolve", and still hoping for Salvation, we let the world "run Itself"...
Then suddenly during an otherworldly intervention, a spark for a righteous rebellion is cast. Will the 'good citizen' make any use of it? What do you foresee?
Slab City
Director: Danylo Hauk, Prateek Damodaren
Country: USA
Duration: 21
This experiential documentary delves into the heart of Slab City, a non-sanctioned anarcho-chaotist off-grid community south of Los Angeles, labeled the “last free place in America”. Through the eyes of a Ukrainian outsider, we embark on a journey to the American social edge.