Pripyat, Chernobyl (part 1 of 2)

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A short film by Irish artist Nicky Larkin, shot in Pripyat, in the Chernobyl exclusion zone.
The city of Pripyat was once considered the finest place to live in the whole of the Soviet Union. A thoroughly modern city, it was built in 1970 to house the workers of the new Chernobyl nuclear power plant and their families, and was once a happy home to 50,000 people. In the aftermath of the accident in Chernobyl in April 1986, the residents of Pripyat were instructed to pack one suitcase and told they would be returning in three days. One thousand buses were drafted in from all across the Soviet Union to take the residents of Pripyat out of their now highly contaminated homes. They never returned. 21 years later Pripyat stands empty, a ghost town deep within the Chernobyl exclusion zone, the last remaining Soviet city. This haunting experimental film by Irish artist Nicky Larkin takes you inside Pripyat and examines the relationship between time, nature and culture, in a city that will never be lived in again.

Selected for The Locarno Film Festival 2008, Switzerland, The European Media Art Festival 2008, Germany, and The Darklight Film Festival, Dublin.

Shot in September 2007
Running Time - 16 minutes
(Due to youtube limitations, it has been neccessary to split Pripyat into two parts. If you wish to see the unsplit original version with stereo sound, visit www.myspace.com/nickylarkin)

Nicky Larkin has a solo show in The Belltable Arts Centre, Limerick, in October 2008, where he will create large-scale multi-screen video and sound installations based on his visit to Pripyat.

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[KalashnikovBoy94]

This is a masterpeice of video.

The sound scares the shit out of me though.

You have to wonder whats in all those lonely buildings?

Ghosts?

Clothing?

Furniture of all the people that fleed to escape the horror that killed hundreds of innocent men women and children?

I would enjoy visiting Pripyat to know the feeling of that deppressing town.

[DasHauss]

now it's a ghost town...

[ShAAnEc057]

50,000 people used to live here, now its a ghost town..

[arctyler]

i couldnt imagine being stuck there at night... i would probably be so scared id die from fear

[itsmeadrian1234]

the long shots of one scene annoys viewers

[Alxmir23]

a before taste of what kind wasteland the world will be one day,probably

[supermario9001]

@deemo600 where? i did not se him.

[sammy4465]

@KalashnikovBoy94 Well your absoulutely correct! People have died there so there possibly could be some Spirtual Presence there. I recently came back from Pripyat just last year and those creaks you hear were in every single building. It gives me the chills, I also think there's ghost there those who cannot rest.

[CubeEmpire]

@KalashnikovBoy94 fled not fleed

[melindastrassekonig]

It is a true mystery

[rick62008]

It would be incredibly awesome if someone would be able to set there a camera to create a timelapse several decades long!

[deemo600]

Shit! I saw MacTavish at 2:24