We are grateful to have had the opportunity to host the screening of «Людина з Табуретом» I «Human with a Stool», with the authors of the film.
«Human with a Stool» is an adventure documentary film about the last trip of a traveler and director Leonid Kanter. In 2004, in a casual Kyiv flat, a group of film students came up with a simple but insane adventure «With a stool to the ocean»: to bring four wooden stools to the shores of four oceans.
The film documents the final, fourth trip to the Pacific Ocean, which lasted a year. Leonid recorded everything that surrounded him, and turned his life into cinema. Upon their return to Ukraine, the travelers are met with war.
The documentary «Human with a Stool» was supposed to be a manifesto for the power of human dreams and the steps we take towards fulfilling them. However, life itself changed the course of the scenario.
Director Yaroslav Popov could not have kept this event behind the scenes. So the original idea of the film underwent a transformation into a philosophical, adventure biopic.
The film is contrastingly lighthearted and sad, shocking and deep, magical and too real. The incredible story of a Ukrainian Leonid Kanter is sure to resonate within the souls of many.
The film was shown in Ukrainian with English subtitles.