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Radio Egg

Darya Cherkashina — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 14:41:42 +0000

Radio Egg is a musical and poetic attempt by the authors to deeply comprehend, accurately and concisely express the large-scale constructions of modern human life.
The works are performed by the soloist Alexei Kokhanov, accompanied by a symphony orchestra. Konstantin Marchevsky and Alexandra Pyatkova take part in the recording of the vocal parts.

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Radio Egg

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50 faces

Darya Cherkashina — Wed, 20 Jan 2021 13:49:34 +0000

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Spring

Darya Cherkashina — Thu, 09 Apr 2020 15:28:28 +0000

Spring demonstrates the precision of Yevgeni Yufit’s structural and editing techniques. It was conceived as a manifesto of necrorealism. The film combines intuition, an interest in the unconscious mind and shock tactics (traditions of the 1920’s avant-garde) with social issues of Soviet Russia.

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Woodcutter

Darya Cherkashina — Thu, 09 Apr 2020 14:56:39 +0000

An eccentric and absurd comedy with endless non-stop fighting, chasing, murders and suicides which are intercut with Soviet symbols of peace and freedom – white doves flying away from the hands of ‘pioneers’ – and documentary footage of the pioneers’ everyday lives.

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They call us the enemy

Darya Cherkashina — Wed, 08 Apr 2020 19:23:48 +0000

Shining boots and buttons, epaulettes and stripes on shoulders and sleeves, medals pinned to the chest, a confident look in the eyes and belief in their own supremacy. The theatrical pomp and circumstance, ceremonial traditions, spotless uniforms and accompanying attributes, which the military uses to present itself, contrast sharply with the devastation and chaos it causes.

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All what is somehow useful | Alles Was Irgendwie Nützt

Darya Cherkashina — Tue, 22 Jan 2019 15:11:05 +0000

A multitude of animals brought together in a rhythmical sequence of photographs. The images blend together similar to the cross breeding of animals. An accumulation of bygone days, captured in photos, in which the animals are replaceable, but the same employees frequently reappear.

Years of studies and experiments on animals are reduced to a few images per second. The outcome of the research derived from the image or remains a mystery. Seeing is comparing; discovering similarities or differences, seeking for an ideal, gratification of curiosity, optimising utilisation.

‘Alles was Irgendwie Nützt’ is based on the historical glass plate photograph collection ‘Julius Kühn’ of the Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg.

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Mom

Darya Cherkashina — Wed, 14 Nov 2018 14:15:09 +0000

“Mom” tells the tale of a son’s tormented reality of two individuals mind twisted into an inseparable parent/child singular identity.

Either drunk or semi-ill overgrown son dully torments his mother and himself. They are an inseparable pair – the man is always with his mother, still snatches her skirt not being able to get back on his feet. He cries, calls, and rends one’s heart. It seems he has been cast off, but it’s out of the question, it seems he needs something, but he doesn’t, it seems something hurts him, but nothing does, it seems a danger approaches from the outside, but there is no danger. Pain, danger, fear, loneliness are all inside, everything is groundless, aimless, and it comes from tearfulness, swaddleness and nonage. «Mom, leave me alone, set me free, turn me out to hell, the hell with you, mom! », – rushes like waves of red, waves of blood, not allowing to see anything around oneself.

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d_time

Darya Cherkashina — Mon, 18 Dec 2017 16:09:31 +0000

The hypnotic effect of d_time is conditioned by the acoustic solution of the sound of an unknown nature superimposed on a depiction which seems to exist independently, reproducing on the one hand fantastic images of the mind, and, on the other hand, the concealed landscape together with the “convex” Op-Art. It is a conscious image and sound bulge that also has some double definition: it is ultimately expressive and simultaneously symbolic. The symbol dissolves in color, in the spreading black and retreating white. This cacophony of sound and color, of sigh and image, is a time in the space of the horizon discovered by the artist.

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STAKES

Darya Cherkashina — Wed, 09 Aug 2017 14:16:20 +0000

The film uses the technique of drawing on 35-mm film. For the original material, he used several shots from Yevgeny Yufit’s film “Silver Heads”. In 1999, “Koly” took part in the Berlinale. The plot: nature cannot stop science, which creates a hybrid of a human being and a tree. The leading role is played by Nikolai Marton.

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Smart Pantheon (Short Version) (old)

VideoArchiveAdmin — Fri, 19 May 2017 21:33:07 +0000

Director, concept, camera, editing, effects, sound: Myriam Thyes

2nd camera and 2nd sound recording: Monika Pirch

Alpha channel masks: Nikolaus Burhenne

Hands of various people use their smartphones. The displays don’t show any app – only the sensual movements of the hands count. Each pair of hands plays both roles from Michelangelo’s “Creation of Adam” at the Sistine Chapel: God father and Adam, whos fingers touch each other. Smartphones are the new saints to which we cling and who guide us on our ways – they are the amulets of our time.

This short version is for all sorts of screenings, from very small (e.g. in a smartphone) to larger monitors or cinema screens.

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