Home From Home: Ukrainian curators and photographers join UK poets to talk about home in a film

Open Eye Gallery has partnered with Hurricane Films to produce a short film highlighting different perspectives on the importance of home, in collaboration with EuroFestival and Open Eye Gallery’s Home programme. In this film Home From Home, Ukrainian curators and photographers join UK poets to talk about home and what it means to them. Interviews with Ukrainian citizens, photographers and curators are layered with lyric responses by UK poets and an interview with Sarah Fisher, Executive Director of Open Eye Gallery, to create an overarching sense of the power of art to express various perspectives on the importance of home.

Filmed in both Ukraine and Liverpool. Produced by Hurricane Films and Arthouse Traffic Films. A Hurricane Films production in association with Twenty One Media (Edge Hill University). Copyright Hurricane Films 2023.

The Home programme was made meaningful through collaboration between Open Eye Gallery and Ukrainian. Photographies, and we would like to thank the following:

Ukrainian Photographers: Anatoliy Babiychuk, Valentine Bo, Oleksandr Burlaka, Igor Chekachkov, Alexander Chekmenev, Andrii Dostliev, Lia Dostlieva, Maryna Frolova, Nazar Furyk, Sasha Kurmaz, Viktor Marushchenko, Mykhaylo Palinchak, Evgeniy Pavlov, Polina Polik Arpova, Victoria Pidust, Viacheslav Poliakov, Andriy Rachynskyi, Anton Shebetko, Yaroslav Solop, Elena Subach, Daria Svertilova.

UK Poets: John Hegley, Hanan Issa, Jackie Kay, Roger McGough (CBE), James Conor Patterson, Deryn Rees-Jones.

Funders: DCMS, The British Council, Spirit of 2012, Arts Council England.

Supporters: Ukrainian Institute, Liverpool ONE, Liverpool BID.

Home Delivery Partners: ace & tate, Arthouse Traffic Films, ArtReview, Arts Bar Baltic, BITA, Bold Street Coffee, C&D Properties, Centre for New and International Writing, Dead Ink Books, dot-art, Edgehill University, Engage, European Poetry Festival, Hafla Hafla, Hurricane Films, Keith’s, Kirkby Gallery, Liverpool Bid, Liverpool Arts Bar, Liverpool Culture Team, Liverpool One, Liverpool Poetry Space, Max Literacy, MerseyMade, Merseyrail, Norton Priory, Nova Scotia, Open Culture, Press Bros, Ropes and Twines, Shenanigans, Singing Our Socks Off Community Choir, The Southbank Centre’s National Poetry Library, SUP, Tempest, Thames & Hudson, Tilly Hire, The Atkinson, The Brink, The Double Negative, The Egg Cafe, The Poetry Society, The World of Glass Museum, UCEN – Manchester, Ukrainian Institute, Unity Theatre, University of Liverpool, Victoria Gallery and Museum, Williamson Art Gallery and Museum, The Windows Project, 92 degrees (Hardman St, Baltic and Southport).

Home Guest Curators: Kateryna Filyuk, Ben Harman, Louise Pearson, Monika Szewczyk, Amelie Schüle, Lindsay Taylor.

At Home Guest Writers: Sarah Hymas, Saul Leslie, Bernadette McBride, Anita Pati, Oleksandra Pron, Deryn Rees-Jones, Pauline Rowe, David Tierney.

Home Book Donators:  JA Flooring, Steven Lucy, SLMC Marketing, Kroll Corlett, The Printroom, Ian & Pauline Wilson, Sue Grainger, North Liverpool Business Forum

Commissioned for EuroFestival by Culture Liverpool / Liverpool City Council.