Free Spaces

Free Spaces sketches a new and transformative image of four major cities in Eastern Europe In te postcommunist urban settings of Tbilisi Georgia Yerevan Armenia Chișinău Moldova and Kiev Ukraine Ina Ivanceanu follows artists and activists as they reclaim public spaces and assert their freedom of expression Occupying a cinema reviving an old Soviet circus converting a grim metro passage into a glamorous arena and repurposing a defunct factory building into a cultural agora By seizing and creatively transforming public spaces characterized by an abondoned past todays new generation explores democratic means and freedom while also confronting pervasive neoliberal structures in their respective societies