title: Filmmaking as Cultural Aggression
abstract: &#x0D; &#x0D; &#x0D; The article discusses cinematic depopulation, the strategy of appropriation of the colonized by the colonizer widely used in the Soviet and post-Soviet cinema made in Ukraine and Russia and, until now, never analyzed in academic literature. The cinematic depopulation is a mode of filmic representation whereby a given ethnoscape (Ukraine) is cleansed of its national community (Ukrainians) and instead is populated by the colonizer (Russians) as if it were an integral part of h
journal: Images The International Journal of European Film Performing Arts and Audiovisual Communication