A random seventies newsreel from the artists’ hometown in Soviet Siberia forms the substratum for a relentless exploration of representational and narrative strategies: without ever collapsing into a ‘story’ or abstraction, the film recants the relationship between analogue and digital, surface and reference, sense and experience, past and present.
Also in this combined programme
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(to) preserve
The title is the only understandable word in this footage that was re-used to evoke a surface that functions as a membrane.
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Night Horse
A few trucks hit a road that eventually leads to a hallucinogenic crossroads and a stable with a psychedelic horse.
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Cut from Liquid to Snake
From a phone recording made during the Trump election campaign to an eyewitness account of the bombing of Hiroshima: how to articulate an awareness
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Stains and Scratches
The polarity between physical marks on celluloid and the photographic image these support challenged the artist to create a stereoscopic illusion.<
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Film details
- Countries of production
- Russia, Switzerland, USA
- Year
- 2019
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2019
- Length
- 7"
- Medium/Format
- DCP
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