The Vanquishing of the Witch Baba Yaga 2014 Jessica Orecks strange and beguiling film combines Eastern European storybook animation with documentary and fiction elements to recount the Slavic fable of the witch Baba Yaga, a frightful character living in a woodland hut perched on chicken legs As with her previous documentary hybrids, Aatsinki The Story of Arctic Cowboys and Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo, Oreck is fascinated by the rituals, superstitions, and fables of diverse subcultures In the case of The Vanquishing, Oreck focuses especially on the contemporary relevance of childhood stories to war and social upheaval memory and trauma and our relationship with the natural world, the threat we pose to that world, and the threat that world poses to us