The film takes you through the interplay of the real and imaginable, the collective and personal and poses a question: How and why was the collective memory related to the Second World War manipulated? Public commemoration, the aggressive patriotic upbringing of children, the cult of victory formed a war-oriented identity and national narratives in Russia. In contrast, the individual memory about WWII among those who experienced it reflects on the violent and tragic side. Can this discrepancy between individual and collective memory be a loophole to break out of the nationalist narrative when remembering past events?

Specifications
two-channel video installation, b/w, sound, 15:35 min., 32:9, English&Russian spoken language, English&German subtitles
installation, 16 hand-dyed fabrics 70x250cm, hand embroidery 80x300cm, carpets
2023

Cinematography: Jeanna Kolesova
Editor, CGI, VFX, colorist, motion capture, voice recording, title design, subtitles: Jeanna Kolesova
Sound design: Alina Anufrienko
Dialogue editing: Vica Kravtsova
Characters’ voices: Maxim Avdeev, Syanda Iaptik, Jeanna Kolesova, Gleb Kovalski, Vica Kravtsova, Kira Shmyreva
Translators: Tilman Fries, Vica Kravtsova

Awards
Film competition, 1st Place Award, Muenzberg Forum, 2023
Winner of Karl Hofer Scholarship, Karl Hofer Gesellschaft, 2023

Exhibitions and screenings
12/2023 Bridges of Remembrance, Museum des Kapitalismus, Berlin, DE
01/2024 Screening, Art in Lov, Loviisa, FI
08/2024 I only work with lost and found, Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin, DE
10/2024 Make voices be heard, Fotograf Festival #14, Prague, CZ
11/2024 Rencontres Internationales, Paris, FR

Memory is an Animal Which Barks with Various Mouths

2023

The film takes you through the interplay of the real and imaginable, the collective and personal and poses a question: How and why was the collective memory related to the Second World War manipulated? Public commemoration, the aggressive patriotic upbringing of children, the cult of victory formed a war-oriented identity and national narratives in Russia. In contrast, the individual memory about WWII among those who experienced it reflects on the violent and tragic side. Can this discrepancy between individual and collective memory be a loophole to break out of the nationalist narrative when remembering past events?

Specifications

two-channel video installation, b/w, sound, 15:35 min., 32:9, English&Russian spoken language, English&German subtitles
installation, 16 hand-dyed fabrics 70x250cm, hand embroidery 80x300cm, carpets
2023

Cinematography: Jeanna Kolesova
Editor, CGI, VFX, colorist, motion capture, voice recording, title design, subtitles: Jeanna Kolesova
Sound design: Alina Anufrienko
Dialogue editing: Vica Kravtsova
Characters’ voices: Maxim Avdeev, Syanda Iaptik, Jeanna Kolesova, Gleb Kovalski, Vica Kravtsova, Kira Shmyreva
Translators: Tilman Fries, Vica Kravtsova

Awards

Film competition, 1st Place Award, Muenzberg Forum, 2023
Winner of Karl Hofer Scholarship, Karl Hofer Gesellschaft, 2023


Exhibitions and screenings

12/2023 Bridges of Remembrance, Museum des Kapitalismus, Berlin, DE
01/2024 Screening, Art in Lov, Loviisa, FI
08/2024 I only work with lost and found, Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin, DE
10/2024 Make voices be heard, Fotograf Festival #14, Prague, CZ
11/2024 Rencontres Internationales, Paris, FR