Two short films capture the peculiar streak of their home countries. First, take a tour of the Kachalka gym in Kiev, Ukraine, an outdoor heap of Soviet scrap-metal era that looks positively post-apocalyptic in Kachalka,directed by Gar O'Rourke.Then visit Christian at home in Austria with his two exceptionally well-behaved cats, Marmelade and Katjuscha, as Christian anxiously waits for Marmelade to give birth inAll Cats are Grey in the Dark, directed by Lasse Lindstrom.
Major funding for POV is provided by PBS, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts and the Wyncote Foundation. Additional funding comes from The John S. and James Knight Foundation, Nancy Blachman and David desJardins, Bertha Foundation, Reva & David Logan Foundation, Open Society Foundations, Chicago Media Project, Lefkofsky Family Foundation, Sage Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee and public television viewers. POV is presented by a consortium of public television stations, including KQED San Francisco, WGBH Boston and THIRTEEN in association with WNET.ORG.
