Personnel of the cinema studio “Tatiana”, whose property was arrested by the officers of the Committee for state control, addressed all cultural associations, people of art, mass media and international human rights organizations. The filmmakers plead with the society and the world to save their studio from complete annihilation.
For more than three weeks filmmaker Yuri Khaschevatsky and three employees off the studio – Irina Pismennaya, Tatiana Loginova and Bronislava Loban – find themselves unable to work as usual. Their offices in the building of the Cinematographers’ Union were sealed up by the policemen from the Committee for state control.
Recently the police controllers fully removed from the Union’s premises all their montage and video-equipment, some of which belonged to the Russian cinema studio, while some was presented to the filmmakers by the Belarusian PEN-Center. Arrest measures were also applied against the property of the “Tatiana” studio, as well as PCs and personal stuff of the women, employed there. Nonetheless, the cinematographers feel the greatest pity of all for the confiscated studio archives. These are 240 video-tapes with documentaries, filmed by the studio team over the twelve previous years of existence.
The author of the last movie, shot at the studio, Yuri Khaschevatsky assumes that arrest of the cinematographers’ property comes as another element of the Belarusian information space’s cleansing. In his opinion, by so doing the authorities are readying for holding a referendum on Alexander Lukashenko’s prolongation of term. The author of the popular documentary “Ordinary President” Yuri Khaschevatsky doesn’t rule out a possibility that these penalties, applied against their studio, are but regime’s personal retaliation for his opposition activism.
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