Description
World premiere
The film immerses viewers in Moscow’s art scene from the late 1980s through the early 2000s. We encounter Joseph Backstein’s curatorial experiments, the performances by the Collective Actions group, the practices of the Moscow Conceptualists, poetry readings by Dmitri Prigov and Boris Yukhananov, concerts by Zvuki Mu and Kino, and the creators of “Assa” and “Moscow-Petushki”. Alongside these familiar figures are the unknown witnesses and participants who inhabited that era. Among them is a foreigner working on a dissertation about a medieval manuscript that intersects, strangely, with the present. The past behaves like a fictional world: recognisable, yet never quite coinciding with reality; documentary in appearance, yet impossible to verify.
The film was made as part of “Supercut”, the video-essay workshop at Garage Museum of Contemporary Art.
Directors:
Yana Osman
Anton Khamchishkin
Audiovisual artists and filmmakers. They work with gaps in storytelling, revealing narratives that exist between the real and the imaginary, myth and document. Their projects have been presented at Garage Museum, Multimedia Art Museum, Archstoyanie Festival, GES-2, Center for Artistic Production — Svody, Stanislavsky Electrotheatre, House of Radio, Kuryokhin Center, among others. Their 2022 film Triptych won the main prize “Golden Taiga – Short Film” at the Spirit of Fire IFF. Their film ΚΟΙΝΟΣ ΚΟΣΜΟΣ was selected for the National Competition at Message to Man 2025.