СYFEST 16: Voyage Video Program – Cyland Video Archive

loving

Darya Cherkashina — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 18:39:25 +0000

Video “loving” (single channel, ambient sound, color, real time, loop 26 min 52 sec), environment with desk, chair, lamp, stationery with letterhead and pen, participative act of the visitors writing a love-letter and depositing it in the drawer, 2016/2024.

loving. It is slow, it seems long. It is short.

On a special day, I was sitting on my ter- race in Rome, when I noticed the half-moon in a very rare vertical position. It was on the 9th September, by chance my grandmother’s birthday, born in 1900. The sky was still bright, voices of people on the streets suggested a serene late-summer evening.

My mood was that of a woman with a broken heart, while reflecting about her own, lost love.

I was here, that strange half part of the moon was there. I observed the moon’s slow crossing over what seemed to me “my sky”. I saw myself as a little individual in a little place, at a little time, living a little life but with a big sentiment, while I was related to such greater dimensions of distance and time. I started to think about love and time.

In my eyes, that image was dramatically beautiful. It was that, what Love meant for me in this very moment: It is slow, it seems long. It is short. The artistic work, which came out from that experience is the video, I called loving.

Regina Hubner loving

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Flower Tunnel

Darya Cherkashina — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 20:58:41 +0000

The train moves fast through the tunnel while roaming inside one flower after another. The film combines the footage of the subway tunnels and the still photographs of flowers, allowing them to interact. Watching this film is like embarking on a psychedelic cosmic journey. In fast motion, particles of various colors rush towards the viewer. The screen is like a black hole, as if there is a gravity sucking the audience into the tunnel. The audience seems to experience passing through clusters of colorful nebulae, and also like crossing through a microscopic world. The flowers in the background are from still images made by the director. The sound of Flower Tunnel uses Shepard tone, to make an unworldly effect of perpetual motion.

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It was just a virtual kiss

Darya Cherkashina — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 14:02:52 +0000

The love story set in the online game World of Warcraft becomes the basis for exploring how players construct their virtual bodies in the digital world and how these bodies extend into digital form. In this process, the game becomes a medium through which players can touch, embrace, and kiss one another, embodying their avatars in different fantasy races. By crossing to the other side of the screen, players create the illusion of physical and emotional connection, overcoming the limitations of their real bodies. This digital construction of the body is heavily shaped by machinima and computer-generated animation. The game world links digital haptic perception with real-world movement, allowing free traversal between the physical and virtual realms.

Being in the game world raises important questions: Are there other ways our bodies can exist? How far can the media really expand to overcome the physical limitations of our bodies? Will new forms of connection and romance emerge from these digital bodies? Are we anticipating entirely new emotional connections?

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