Next Stop
YOU NEVER KNOW WHERE IT ENDS NEXT
An immersive short film about comfort and displacement: a young man falls asleep on a German subway — and wakes up in a Kyiv metro station that is no longer a station, but a shelter.
First-person, at night: people sleeping on cardboard, children between suitcases. Red targeting lines settle over them — names, ages, fates, like a drone's HUD. 'Galyna, 40, will die in 3 days.' Then he wakes up. The scenes stay the same. Only the effects are gone.
The Kyiv scenes are built entirely from a 3D point cloud — black and white, cold, distanced, as if filmed by a drone. People become tracked objects: not Mykola or Olena anymore, just coordinates.
We no longer live with media — we live in media. The war in Ukraine is the first conflict transmitted through TikTok, drones and live feeds. Everything we know about war, we know through images. This film asks what happens when the viewer becomes part of the footage.
Valeriya Ritz · Elizaveta Berch