Thursday 13 November 2014

Holodomor Information and Resources


Online

http://www.holodomor.org.uk/

Human Rights in Ukraine: Information website of the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection group
http://www.khpg.org.ua/en/index.php?id=1221299499


Videos

Genocide in Ukraine
Video by Mike Parker on Youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JAiUcqy3lM


Books

Execution by Hunger: The Hidden Holocaust. By M Dolot
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0393304167?ie=UTF8&tag=peoplecentere-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0393304167

Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivisation and the Terror-Famine (Pimlico). By Robert Conquest
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0712697500?ie=UTF8&tag=peoplecentere-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0712697500


Ukraine

Ukrainian Genocide Holodomor Memorial Museum
http://memorialholodomors.org.ua/en

Ukrainian and Soviet Resources


UK

The Ukrainian Institute in London
http://ukrainianinstitute.org.uk/

Society for Co-operation in Russian and Soviet Studies (SCRSS)
http://www.scrss.org.uk/

Ukrainian Collections at the British Library
http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelplang/ukrainian/ukrainiancollections/ukrainiancoll.html

UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies Library
(internet resources on Ukraine)
http://www.ssees.ucl.ac.uk/library/directory/ukraine.htm

Association of Ukrainians in Great Britain
http://www.augb.co.uk/library-and-archive.php

Amnesty International: Human Rights in Ukraine, News and Publications
http://www.amnesty.org/en/region/ukraine

Embassy of Ukraine to the United Kingdon of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
http://uk.mfa.gov.ua/en

The Ukrainian Embassy in London
http://ukraine.embassyhomepage.com/


Online

Anton Shekhovtsov's blog (links to online Ukrainian libraries, in Ukrainian)
http://anton-shekhovtsov.blogspot.co.uk/2009/11/online-ukrainian-libraries.html

Library directory: Online Libraries of the World
http://www.librarydir.org/CountryLibraries.aspx?Country=Ukraine

Electronic Library of Ukraine
http://www.elibukr.org/

Ukrainian Poetry Library
http://poetry.uazone.net/english.html


US and Canada

Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University
http://www.huri.harvard.edu/library.html

Ukrainian Museum and Library of Stamford, Connecticut
http://www.ukrainianmuseumlibrary.org/


Ukraine

The Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine
http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/tel4/contributor/P01232
http://nbuv.gov.ua/

Ukrainian Library Association
http://ula.org.ua/en/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/ukrainian-library-association-ula-

Ukrainian Catholic University
http://ucu.edu.ua/eng/research/library/

Sunday 14 September 2014

Oral Histories


I sort of read (flicked through) this book after coming across it in Didsbury library. It got me thinking about how, or if, animation and drawing could be used in the process of collecting stories and in oral history interviews. Especially when there is a language difference.

The Oral History Reader
Edited by Robert Perks and Alistair Thomson, Routledge 2006
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Oral-History-Reader-Routledge-Readers/dp/0415343038

Postscript:
I have been using this process a lot in my teaching. Drawing, diagrams, explanations in pencil. I'll post examples below.

Thursday 11 September 2014

Tower Bawher



Tower Bawher, by Theodore Ushev

I came across this incredible film by Theodore Ushev and couldn't believe I had never seen it before. The director described the process of making it as being like being in a trance, which is just how it feels to watch it. A kind of outpouring of visual memory.

Theodore Ushev:
https://vimeo.com/ushev
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Ushev

The National Film Board of Canada
https://www.nfb.ca/film/tower_bawher

Monday 8 September 2014

Sites of Collective Memory

Four films commissioned by Animate Projects
http://www.animateprojects.org/films/by_project/group_commissions/sites_of_collective_memory


I have been checking out the latest commissions by Animate projects, and really like this piece by Jordan Baseman. I was particularly struck by his editing of the original material. The original transcript is an interesting read in itself, link below.

Little Boy, by Jordan Baseman
http://www.animateprojects.org/films/by_date/20141/little_boy

Transcript of interview used in the film
http://www.scribd.com/doc/232888202/Little-Boy-Transcript?secret_password=ohMGiCkD7zuvBXyED0nG

Jordan Baseman
http://www.jordanbaseman.co.uk/

The Heritage of Ages

Ukrainian painting of the 14th-18th centuries in museum collections of Lviv. (published in 1990).

I found this beautiful book for sale in one of the Ukrainian churches in Manchester. It's packed full of illustrations, but I particularly liked these. The patterns on the clothes reminded me of the old cartoons where the characters move but the patterns inside them don't.


Top: Circle of the late-15th-century master of the "Praying with Tier" from Daliova.St. Nicholas with Two Scenes from His Life. Late 15th–early 16th c. c. dvyzhen (Lisko, now Poland).

Above: Senkovych Fedir. St. Basil the Great. 1620s. Lviv

 
The story of One Crime, by Fyodor Khitruk (1966)

Friday 20 June 2014

Post Two


Recipes for Baking Bread:
An animated short / series, telling stories of Ukrainian famines in the 1930's.
A blog to document work in progress, development and research.

Memorial


Dormition of Our Lady, Ukrainian Catholic Church.
Cheetham Hill, Manchester.