Монументомания: как памятники делают войну возможной
Monumentomania: how memorials make war possible
- Vitya Vilisov
- Georgia, France
- 2024
66 min
Russian
English
7
Artdoc rating
War is possible in a society to which it seems acceptable or natural. War monuments play am enormous role in people's desensitizing to war or open militarization: they give shape and direction to collective memory, influencing collective identity and in many ways determining the values of societies. Today, state monumental policies around the world glorify war, portraying it as an inevitable and natural part of life; instead of commemorating the victims and depicting the grief of war, monuments glorify organized violence. This is a film about how monuments shape places of memory and tell people how and what to remember, what example to follow; how power derives legitimacy from monuments and what the cult of glory has to do with it; how monuments influence our emotions and values; how monumentality compromised itself in the 20th century and what is replacing it; and whether monuments can do the work of memory for us.
Authors
Film crew
- Director
- Vitya VIlisov
- Screen writer
- Vitya VIlisov
- Operator
- Vitya VIlisov
- Producer
- Vitya VIlisov
MOVIE ABOUT
- Theme
- War
- Country
- Georgia, France
- Festivals
- Artdocfest 2025
- Financing
- Independent
- Languages
- Russian
- Subtitles
- English
Tags
Война