where knives become tongues

Documentary, Mockumentary
35:42 min
Color
Sound
Russian spoken language
English subtitles

Cinematography: Jeanna Kolesova
Sound design: Alina Anufrienko
Re-Recording: Fedya Balashov
DOP: Anna Ivanova, Jeanna Kolesova
Editor, Colorist: Jeanna Kolesova
With: Alina Anufrienko, Maksim Avdeev, A.N., Anna Ivanova, L.N., T.N., L.N., I.N., Jeanna Kolesova, E.N., Anna Malgina, V.N., Ilario Pasut

Supported by
Neun Kelche
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Scholarship

A hybrid documentary-mockumentary Where knives become tongues collides three realities: rural Russian women and Orthodox clergy, queer migrants in Germany, and the far-right’s rise they now face. Revisiting 2019 interviews recorded in Russia, the friends confront not just memory, but the impossibility of dialogue across divides.

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Index

FILM

WHERE KNIVES BECOME TONGUES

2025

VIDEO

UNDER THE PEATLAND: ARCHIVE

2025

TEXT

WITNESSES OR RESOURCES?

2025

PERFORMANCE

DISSOLUTION

2024

TEXT

ON CREATED WORLDS AND PLOTTED ROUTES

2024

INSTALLATION

WHEN THE PAST BECOMES A WEAPON

2024

VIDEO

MEMORY IS AN ANIMAL WHICH BARKS WITH VARIOUS MOUTHS

2023

VIDEO

NARBE/SCAR

2023

INSTALLATION

AUTHORITARIAN LEGISLATION AND THE STRUGGLE FOR SOVEREIGNITY

2023

PERFORMANCE

MEMORY AND WAR

2022

TEXT

WAR AND MYTH

2022

VIDEO

PARALLEL UNIVERSE

2021