Revolutions on Granite

Directed by Brendan Gilliam

About the skateboarders of Kyiv, from the first skater until today, passionately finding a way to make it happen in an unlikely place.

Revolutions on Granite is a documentary about Maidan Nezahlezhonsti, a public square in the heart of Kyiv, Ukraine — famously home to a number of political revolutions, but also the birthplace of a cultural revolution after the fall of the Iron Curtain. The film takes a look at the burgeoning skateboard scene at Maidan in the early 1990’s, and investigates the idea of a counterculture being created in a place of strict uniformity.