To Infinity and Beyond

By: Juliet Jacques

A new film depicts the story of a Soviet architectural ‘UFO’ in Kyiv, which still stands as both a resistance to Stalinist philistinism and wild capitalism.

Still from Infinity: According to Florian (2022). Image courtesy of Oleksiy Radynski.

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Ukrainian writer, documentary film director, and Tribune contributor Oleksiy Radynski’s new feature, Infinity According to Florian (2022), picks up on a story in his short Film of Kyiv series, about the fate of the capital’s spectacular ‘flying saucer’ building. Inspired by the Soviet space programme, Florian Yuriev designed ‘Tarilka’ for the Institute of Information in […]

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Ukrainian writer, documentary film director, and Tribune contributor Oleksiy Radynski’s new feature, Infinity According to Florian (2022), picks up on a story in his short Film of Kyiv series, about the fate of the capital’s spectacular ‘flying saucer’ building. Inspired by the Soviet space programme, Florian Yuriev designed ‘Tarilka’ for the Institute of Information in […]

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Ukrainian writer, documentary film director, and Tribune contributor Oleksiy Radynski’s new feature, Infinity According to Florian (2022), picks up on a story in his short Film of Kyiv series, about the fate of the capital’s spectacular ‘flying saucer’ building. Inspired by the Soviet space programme, Florian Yuriev designed ‘Tarilka’ for the Institute of Information in […]

Ukrainian writer, documentary film director, and Tribune contributor Oleksiy Radynski’s new feature, Infinity According to Florian (2022), picks up on a story in his short Film of Kyiv series, about the fate of the capital’s spectacular ‘flying saucer’ building. Inspired by the Soviet space programme, Florian Yuriev designed ‘Tarilka’ for the Institute of Information in […]

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