Weaponising art: Rule of Two Walls

UKRAINE / The profound impact of art as a means of survival and resistance against cultural erasure. Culture is an «action and a product of a people,» stresses a character in Ukrainian-American writer-director David Gutnik’s Tribeca-winning (Documentary Competition Special Jury Mention) and Liev Schreiber EP’d Rule of Two Walls, a rivetingly meta look at the war in Ukraine through the narratives of defiant artists that have chosen to stay in their country and fight – by continuing to make their art. And that includes not just painters and musicians but even a sound recorder and an editor, a producer and a director, all banding together to develop a documentary drama ultimately named after the directive to stay in a windowless space between two walls when the bombs start to fall.

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