Released in partnership with Myriapod Productions in 2016.
Jessica Oreck’s mesmerising film combines Eastern European fairy-tale animation with documentary, personal memories and fiction to reflect on the ongoing resonance of the Slavic story of the witch Baba Yaga in a landscape steeped in social upheaval. Exploring the Europe’s haunted woodlands as places of both danger and shelter, Oreck reflects on the relationship between human conflict and the natural world.
Press:
- "Bewitching nature documentary" – The Guardian
- "Documentarian Jessica Oreck’s extraordinary, thought-provoking meditation on the nature of civilization, progress, folklore and collective memory."- BFI
- "A grotesque Slavic fairy tale is compared to the realities of modern Eastern Europe in this intriguing miniature." - Little White Lies
