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Uncried Tears

Filmscreening
Education in the Arts
Premiere preview of the latest film, What Will You Do If the War Continues? — Chapter 4 (2025–2026) by Vladislav Plisetskiy. This screening is co-curated with Bogdana Kosmina & Elke Krasny, Program for Art and Education at the Department of Education in the Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.

Shortly before the full-scale invasion, as russian troops flexed their muscles near the Ukrainian border, Vladyslav Plisetskyi asked himself: "What You will do when the War starts?" The answer came: "I will make films." So began a trilogy about the outbreak, the continuation, and the end of war, filmed over the years that followed. In Vienna, we are presenting the premiere preview of the latest film, What Will You Do If the War Continues? — Chapter 4 (2025–2026). 

Uncried Tears gathers these works for one evening. In What Will You Do If the War Continues?, the second part, Plisetsky traces how prolonged war reshapes society, political narrative, and personal reality — through his own biography, his performances, a dialogue with his grandfather, and the transformation of the Ukrainian queer community. The war here is not a backdrop but pressure: identities, cultures, and ideologies collide within it, and the chaos of invasion seeps into the lives of LGBTQ+ people and their entanglement in the resistance itself.

Alongside it — Mold Kid, autobiographical video art that begins in a Murmansk orphanage and moves through Kyiv's queer rebirth, trash fashion, thanatological performances, and blood as material. Plisetsky works with decay not as accusation but as curiosity: tenderness for the wound, for the rotting, for closed systems coming
apart—a messenger from a freer world, looking back at us with sadness and a gentle touch.

Vladislav Plisetskiy (often spelled Plisetskiy) — born in 1999.
Plisetskiy is a prominent young Ukrainian performative artist, documentary filmmaker, and fashion designer. In 2020, a participant in the online marathon dedicated to the International Day against Homophobia, with the performance "Queen of Golden Rain" (Club Crest, Kyiv, UA). Presented his first performance — "Fuck why I don't see your changes bitch fucking pelt" — at Coming Out of Isolation 2.0, a long-term project of the IZOLYATSIA Foundation and the NGO "KyivPride", which, with the help of contemporary art, contributes to the visibility of LGBT+ people and their full and equal inclusion in public life, in 2020 (IZOLYATSIA, Kyiv, UA). Plisetskiy's urban performance took place at the exhibition opening "Violence: Everything Against You" in 2021 (Dzherelo, Kyiv, UA). Personal exhibition "Mold-Kid", curated by Wet-Hole, in 2021–2022 (Dzherelo, Kyiv, UA).
Plisetskiy was nominated for the prestigious PinchukArtCentre (PAC) Prize in 2025. Plisetskiy was in military service in 2025–2026; from now on, he works on materials he documented in the army.