Lviv, 1999. Lviv Television, programme ‘Autograph’.

The programme is dedicated to Kateryna Bilokur. Author Vasyl Hlynchak talks about the artist, presents the book ‘I Will Be an Artist!’ – her letters collected by Mykola Kagaritsky, and talks about the role of singer Oksana Petrusenko in the painter's life. Actress Nadiya Shepetiuk from the Maria Zankovetska Theatre reads K. Bilokur's ‘Autobiography’ and, together with V. Hlynchak, quotes excerpts from her letters. 
The video shows the artist's paintings. 


‘I will be an artist!’ – letters from Kateryna Bilokur

Lviv, 1961, Lviv Television Studio.

A story about printing paintings and illustrations on the theme of Shevchenko. In the video: a printing house, workers, the graphic work ‘Jan Hus,’ other illustrations for the works of T. Shevchenko, and self-portraits of the poet.

Shevchenko in graphics

Cherkasy Television. The February 14, 2001 issue of the program "Faces of the 'Golden Book'" is dedicated to the Honored Artist of Ukraine Mykola Telizhenko.

On the video: an interview with Mykola Telizhenko, he talks about his artistic works; paintings and sculptures by Telizhenko are shown; the artist's studio; a photo archive of the Telizhenko family; a blitz survey of family members, children talk about their father.

Comments: artist Mykola Telizhenko; writer Vasyl Yukhymovych; wife, Honored Artist of Ukraine Oleksandra Telizhenko.

Host — Kateryna Taran.

Reference: Mykola Telizhenko is a Ukrainian sculptor and graphic artist, People's Artist of Ukraine, member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine. The author of numerous monumental and decorative works, including mosaic panels in Cherkasy, monuments to the victims of the Chernobyl tragedy and the Holodomor, as well as the author of the flag of Cherkasy and the coat of arms of the Cherkasy region. His work combines national motifs with the traditions of Ukrainian monumentalism.

Cherkasy Symbolism: Artist Mykola Telizhenko

Chernihiv Television. The episode of the program "Our Openings" from February 19, 1999 is dedicated to the Ukrainian artist Yevhen Krip.

On the video: biography of Yevhen Krip, photos from the artist's personal archive; interview with Yevhen Krip, talks about his student years, creative path, reflections on the artist's work.

Host — Tetyana Myrhorodska.

Reference: Yevhen Krip is a Ukrainian artist who worked in the field of easel, monumental painting and graphics. His work combines features of realism and symbolism, is distinguished by attention to spiritual and national motifs, deep color plasticity and emotional lyricism of images. The author of numerous landscapes, still lifes, monumental paintings and religious compositions.

Artist Yevhen Krip

National Television and Radio Company of Ukraine, 2008.

The film "Lyudmila Meshkova. Self-portrait against the background of the Universe" is dedicated to the people's artist-ceramicist Lyudmila Meshkova.

On the video: an interview with Lyudmila Meshkova, who talks about her work, the history of the creation of the most famous works, icons, panels, portraits of prominent figures of culture and art, a series of paintings dedicated to the tragedy of Hiroshima.

Reference: Lyudmila Meshkova is a Ukrainian artist-ceramicist, People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR, the founder of a new direction in art - ceramic painting. She created over 350 works, among which the monumental panel "Earth, send the fluids of life and flowering to the worlds of the Universe..." at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris stands out. She worked in the technique of multiple firing using enamel, glass and stone. Her works have become an important part of Ukrainian cultural heritage.

Artist Lyudmila Meshkova "Self-portrait against the background of the Universe"

National Television and Radio Company of Ukraine, 2008.

The film is dedicated to the creative path of the Ukrainian artist Ivan Marchuk.

In the video: Ivan Marchuk's works are demonstrated, the artists talk about the interpretation of the ideas and meanings embedded in the artist's paintings.

Contains a fragment of an interview with Ivan Marchuk.

Comments: editor-in-chief of the magazine "Museum Lane" Oleksandr Klymchuk; writer Oksana Zabuzhko; artist Ivan Marchuk; director of the Lviv College of Decorative and Applied Arts named after Ivan Trush Vasyl Otkovych; artist Lyubomyr Medvid; teacher of Ukrainian language and literature (village Moskalivka in Ternopil region) Halyna Poplavska.

Reference: Ivan Marchuk (born 1936) is a Ukrainian painter, People's Artist of Ukraine, laureate of the Taras Shevchenko National Prize of Ukraine (1997), founder of the author's technique of plantanism. His oeuvre includes about 5,000 works, systematized in more than ten cycles, including "The Voice of My Soul", "Shevchenkiana", "White Planet". He held more than 150 personal exhibitions in Ukraine and abroad, was included in the rating of "100 Geniuses of Modernity" (The Daily Telegraph, 2007).

The Artistic Phenomenon of Ivan Marchuk

Transcarpathian Television, 2000. The art program "The Secret of Spiritualization" is dedicated to the artistic family of Ivan and Nadiya Didyk, their creative path and family traditions.

On the video: Uzhgorod, the Uzh River, the Didyk family paints paintings; interview with the family; Didyk paintings, gallery; interview with Ivanna Didyk, who talks about her diploma work.

Comments from artists: Ivan Didyk, Nadiya Didyk, Oleksandr Voytovych, Ivanna Didyk-Voytovych.

Reference: Ivan Didyk is an honored artist of Ukraine, a representative of the Transcarpathian school of painting, known for landscapes, still lifes and works in the technique of pastel and glass painting. His wife, Nadiya Didyk, an honored artist of Ukraine, works in the style of decorative post-impressionist painting, is known as a colorist and composition teacher. Both daughters, Ivanka Didyk-Voytovych and Natalia Myronchuk, are also painters, continuing the artistic tradition of the family.


Transcarpathian School of Painting: Didyk Family

National Television and Radio Company of Ukraine, 2010.

The documentary film "Light and Shadow of Beauty" is dedicated to the reflections of Ukrainian artists on the topic of female attractiveness.

On the video: theatrical performance, women in folk uniforms; photo shoot for a magazine, various shots; fragments of various films, female images; puppet shows.

Comments: writer Oksana Zabuzhko; athlete, editor-in-chief of the magazine "Pink" Anna Bessonova (in russian); sculptor Anatoly Kharechko; researcher at the "Museum of One Street" Anatoly Kiyashko.

About the secrets of female attractiveness

1996, Volyn Television. Program "...and finally dawn" about Volyn artist Mykola Kumanovsky.

On video: screensavers, interview with Mykola Kumanovsky, exhibition of the artist's works "This dark Ukrainian night". Comments by art historians Volodymyr Pidhor and Zoya Navrotskaya.

Author: Alla Ostrolutska.

Artist Mykola Kumanovsky

2004, National Television Company of Ukraine. A programme from the series ‘Not by bread alone...’ dedicated to artist Mykola Storozhenko, writer Yevhenia Kononenko and poet Dmytro Kremen.

The video includes: opening credits, a story about artist Mykola Storozhenko: an exhibition of his works, illustrations for Taras Shevchenko's ‘Kobzar,’ an interview with the artist, commentary by writer Vasyl Shklyar; a story about detective writer Yevhenia Kononenko: an interview with the writer, photos from her personal archive, books; a story about poet Dmytro Kremen: commentary, reciting his poem ‘The Lost Manuscript.’

Author: Teodozia Zarivna.

Artist, writer and poet

Lviv Television, 1962. Black and white video, no sound.

On the video: photo exhibition, various halls, visitors looking at photos; excursion, listeners; close-up photos: landscapes of European cities, people at a rally with flags, large machine-building plants, workers, children on vacation, natural landscapes.

Photo exhibition, 1962

May 12, 2002, Kyiv.

The plot is dedicated to the work of the Ukrainian sculptor Vasyl Boroday.

On the video: sculptures created by Vasyl Boroday, various plans; photo archive of the Boroday family, photos from the Second World War; fragments of black-and-white chronicles with battles on the territory of Ukraine; blitz interview of the sculptor's son and granddaughter, telling about the artistic dynasty of the family and the peculiarities of the style; chronicle of the installation of the monument "Motherland" in Kyiv; fragment of an interview with Vasyl Boroday, a master at work.

Reference: Vasyl Boroday is a Ukrainian sculptor, academician, professor, author of monumental works that became iconic for Ukrainian Soviet art of the second half of the 20th century. Among his most famous works are the monumental sculpture "Motherland", the monument "To the Founders of Kyiv - Brothers Kyi, Shchek, Khoriv and Their Sister Lybid" (1982), and the memorial composition "And Mother Waits...". He worked in the genres of easel and monumental sculpture, and was the rector of the Kyiv Art Institute (1966–1973).