My Babushka: Searching Ukranian Identities (2001)
My Babushka: Searching Ukrainian Identities
53 min
This video documentary centers on the questions of civil liberties and cultural differences in a society beginning to open as one woman searches for her own ethnic roots, identity and family history in Ukraine. Issues of human rights, anti-Semitism, homophobia, feminism and a divided and economically-depressed country are encountered as Barbara Hammer, a feminist activist and pioneer of lesbian cinema, return to a “homeland” full of struggling as people search for a new post-glasnost identity.
- Release date
- January 1, 2001
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Vera Berdashevich as Self - Film Director
- Vadim Bezprozvany as Self - Curator
- Greesha Felanovsky as Self - Journalist
- Alexander Ficinko as Self - Gay Magazine Publisher
- Natalia Filonenko as Self - Artist
- Barbara Hammer as Self - Filmmaker
- Anna Buchack Kusz as Self - Great Grandmother
- Marta Kuzma as Self - Kiev Soros Center Director
- Lubov Nalapkina as Self - Chernobyl Activist
- Linda Olstein as Self - Visual Artist
Crew
- Barbara Hammer · Director
- Barbara Hammer · Producer
- Barbara Hammer · Cinematographer
- Nelia Pasichnyk · Cinematographer
- Alice Perry · Cinematographer
- Barbara Hammer · Editor