costume

I love the combination between folklore and jeans espaccially.

Denim represents a lot. The every day, the west, the casual, but also a duality between luxory and working class.

blue jeans was a symbolic focal point of the Cold War. The UDSSR oppresed it, there was no trade and so blue jeans were a black market item and even said to be a crime.

It is deffintely something my mum told me about and espaccially the hype when the iron curtain fell, and how it has so ambiogious meanings attached from trasnforms from luxory western item to every day working class wear.

My mum does a lot of patchwork and also works a lot with denim in different ways: 2 examples

Ukrainian artist like Alina Pash is a big inspiration

Also love combination with sports wear.
Left side Alina Pash. Right side Alpine Tradition Sports wear (Love)
Also modern version of sheppers head with pretty flower details

𝒰𝓀𝓇𝒶𝒾𝓃𝒾𝒶𝓃 𝒻𝑜𝓁𝓀

Folklore has been an important tool in defining and retaining a cultural distinctiveness in Ukraine in the face of strong assimilatory pressures from neighboring lands

Most traditions are perserved by the Hutsul people, (native to the Carpathian mountains) because this is they could still survive.

- Flowers (more worn ceremonially or in details

vyshyvanka
(embroidered shit with puffy sleves)

Krayka, Traditional Woven Belt

Love the corstes, not necessarily tradtional ukrainian

ofc Jewlery!

( i have a bit of a collection between more tradtional and newer interpreted jewlery):

- red beads
- lost of strains of beaded
- these more colar like ones with patterns out of smaller beads
- brass/ metal bells
- coins

And headscarfs.

Really would like to have
a headscarf / ski mask, with head and neck covered.

𝓂𝑜𝓉𝒶𝓃𝓀𝒶

Motankas are ancient Ukrainian family talismans. They are the symbol of prosperity, goodness and hope. Then first knotted dolls appeared about 5,000 years ago, and represented the unity of the family and deep connection between multiple generations

I would like to draw reference to this through using a blind of some kind.
Throughout the film this blind develops from
just being a blind, --> being taken off (seeing with own eyes) --> then to again being on but with eyes made of seeds.

I made a first attempt here to create such a seed eye with some jewlery I own in the back

I also think it could be maybe realised a bit less literally maybe?

Even tho there are so many dresses and skirts, I actually really want trouwers haha. Flowy trousers or really jeans, but i think that gives the character a bit more of a feeling of action/agency

me haha
with some scarf my mum owns

This is an animation I did, which is also gonna be part of the film, representing this seed character.
I think creating a link between animation and outfit, could be intresting and strengthening the feeling that they are both the same being actually

The film starts by looking from above down to this space called Daughterlands. Almost seed shaped the grass slowly moves in the wind. It’s a liminal landscape, a borderland: It’s where the the past, that is never finished, and the future, never determined, meet. Plants live there in their own right, but in harmony together. This landscape inhabits struggles, but they are allowed to exist. Diversity is abundant.

These two pictures are of Lesia Ukrainka (1871 – 1913).
She was one of Ukrainian literature's foremost writers, an active political, civil, and feminist activist.
She really embraced folklore in her writing but also these two pictures of her are very intriguing to me.
And letting me connect to these other pictures more.

Metaphorically,
we describe where we come from as our roots,
Reaching through layers of ancestories,
Alive or buried, their rich soil nurturing us, weaving ourselves into the fabric of histories that slowly decompose into cultures