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Sid Iandovka | Russia, Switzerland, USA | 2019 | 7' |

| IFFR 2019

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.

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(to) preserve
Regained
The title is the only understandable word in this footage that was re-used to evoke a surface that functions as a membrane.
Night Horse
Regained
A few trucks hit a road that eventually leads to a hallucinogenic crossroads and a stable with a psychedelic horse.
Cut from Liquid to Snake
Regained
From a phone recording made during the Trump election campaign to an eyewitness account of the bombing of Hiroshima: how to articulate an awareness of
Stains and Scratches
Regained
The polarity between physical marks on celluloid and the photographic image these support challenged the artist to create a stereoscopic illusion.