Julia Gunnison
Julia Gunnison is a writer who lives in New York City. She is the co-editor of Syllabus, a weekly publication for nontraditional syllabi. Gunnison took part in Reverse Shot’s Emerging Critics Workshop during the First Look 2023 festival.
By Julia Gunnison
| May 5, 2023
Employing text, voice, and photography in literal, informational modes, What Are the Wild Waves Saying? shows how the most complex questions and quandaries often lie directly on the surface of history.
Melnyk had set out to make a strictly observational documentary. On the ground in Stuzhytsia, he found it impossible to maintain the distance this approach required.