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  • 7 weeks ago
Her patronymic — a father-coded middle name — is more than just a formality in Mariia Ponomarova’s personal and structurally playful documentary that expertly blends archival material, meta re-enactments, and present-day family exchanges to deconstruct the notion of cultural identity.
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00:19Hello, my name is Maria Ponomareva.
00:23Who?
00:25Maria Volemyrovna, Ponomareva.
00:28Where is she?
00:31Volemyrovna, that's my patronymic.
00:35And yet, it's nowhere to be found in my international documents.
00:40What was the problem?
00:45What was the problem?
00:46What was the problem?
00:46What was the problem?
00:51What was the problem?
00:54What was the problem?
00:55I don't know.
00:56For what to do?

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