2 weeks of hell in 7 minutes: a video diary from Mariupol

Overview

2 weeks of hell in 7 minutes is a visual diary providing a first-person perspective on Mariupol during March 2022, produced by the teenage blogger Alena Zagreba. The video was made when the city was besieged by the Russian army. The diaristic and personal character of the blogger’s perspective is confronted with the horrors of war documented via her phone camera. In April 2022 the Freefilmers collective translated Zagreba's video diary into English, French, Polish, Portuguese, German, and Spanish. The circulation of the diary was also a way of doubting and subverting the protocols of online presence and the market-regulated visual ecologies of social media in times of war.