Description
A film representing a stroll through St. Petersburg. Captured by a broken frame composition, deserted streets, frozen city infrastructure, stone embankments, pigeons in parks, dandelions breaking through the pavements, aberrations of color and light evoke an increasing sense of unease. Ambient sounds—random conversations, city noises, and a track composed by Mexican sound artist Enrique Arriaga—merge with the visuals, making the film a direct speech of a human/camera/witness about what clearly audible in the actual urban space.
About the director:
Masha Godovannaya
Director, artist, and curator born in 1976 in Moscow. She studied music, printing, and publishing before moving to New York in 1995 to attend Brooklyn College. There, she worked at the Anthology Film Archives and learned from Jonas Mekas. Her education continued in New York, St. Petersburg, and Vienna. She has produced numerous experimental films, installations, and performances, with works featured at festivals in Rotterdam, London, Oberhausen, Galway, Lumen, as well as the Vienna Triennial and the Pompidou Centre. Godovannaya’s works are part of collections at the State Russian Museum, the Austrian Film Museum in Vienna, Parisian and New York collections. In 2013, she served on the jury for the In Silico programme at the Message to Man IFF.