Screening of video works from the CYLAND VIDEO ARCHIVE collection in VIDEOFORMES festival in France, January, 2020

1993,

13:10

Music by Sergey Kuryokhin

Film was made by: Inal Savchenkov, Franz Rodwalt, Sergey Enkov, Grigory Strelnikov, Olga Maslova, Valentina Nesterova, Boris Timkovsky

Animation from a full-length film. The plot revolves around the story of a musician and confrontation between classical jazz and alternative music. Sergey Kuryokhin asked the artists to make this film and organized the shooting at Lenfilm studio. It was a professional 35mm film, however, it was left unfinished due to the lack of funding. The music is based on “Opera for the rich”. Music activates the objects that start moving chaotically and fighting. The artists create masterly collages by means of application and animate them.

2009,

05:00

Conveyor system is a tool that exercises a universal operation similar to addition in mathematics and unvaried regardless of the specific object it is applied to. The video is about an abstract process with no end or beginning. A ceaseless stream of signs in the information space is similar to a steady flow of details on the continuous belt. The viewer can only see fragments from his “work place”.

2017,

05:08

With the help of a computer program the artist creates an imaginary tridimensional kinetic sculptural compositions and puts them into urban environment. In the virtual space of imaginary city different creatures are growing. These civilizational mutants were engendered by a mind of a human himself, the one who lives in a megapolis in the age of the Internet, TV, innumerable gadgets, social media posts, accounts, likes, news feeds, and other manifestations of contemporary reality. In this work artist counter poses the world with its plastics of live nature and stressful rhythms of megapolis. Artist sees it as a reflection of a possibility of saving a «living» element inside technological computerized environment

2014,

01:26

An attempt of reconstruction. The plots of video remind classical sculptures. Choreographer restores the memories of the past by the analytical method. The work is made in a creative tandem with choreographer Maya Popova

2015,

05:44

This work represents a piece of hand-drawn animation, or kind of succession of drawings (about 1 thousand graphic artworks, calking paper) depicting body positions, available for direct vision, i.e. without use of mirrors or other reflecting means. Painting from life was another condition to create additional frame that made the result vivid, existing in space and time, and subordinate to body accommodation, capacities of vision and perception, and definite time frame.We get our perception and experience through our body, but if we get the idea of existence of things due to the body, how can it be objectified?

2015,

04:28

“When I was a child, I was afraid of clouds. I felt as if our house had simply own off into space.
I found this viscous and white infinity all around intimidating due to its emptiness… Years later I can still see my house in the dream, I am running, I am trying to get inside, get into my room, but the staircases have already disappeared…”

2016,

05:00

The artist creates a zone inhabited by fictional characters based on the world of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl video game. He materializes his phantasms in the digital space of a derelict landscape. He settles this post-apocalyptic world with his hand-painted flat relief plywood silhouettes. He transforms the potential of digital technologies, turning them into a work of art

2019,

03:16

music: Last King of Poland (Chicago)

chorus: what is weirdness encased in ice it hurts

lyrics: filthy nostalgia love is a crime learn from a dove learn how to die

2010,

02:29

End of Fun is episode 3 from the series Life and Adventures of WHITES and BLACKS. The film’s technique is the animation of clothing “without people”. The behavior of clothing when there is no person inside them differs significantly from their behavior when on people. Everything is black-and-white.