2006 – Cyland Video Archive

Beauty, money and a green leather

Darya Cherkashina — Wed, 23 Dec 2020 16:04:46 +0000

Trash-animation.
About MTV- girls & Barby Generation and their relationship with men.
Original parody on consisting from continuous “gaks” and stamps: the world Hollywood luxury with never-ending pretty women and the macho surprisingly reminding some domestic tendencies life of young girls.
Usual, in general-that history, but as powerfully, temperamentally, under music Iggy Pop and other vigorous sound tracks, told!

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0 kino

Darya Cherkashina — Wed, 23 Sep 2020 17:50:38 +0000

Kostya Mitenev@Masha Pentium
Studio “Undina_film”
Length: 0h 0m 0s

This is a film about Masha Pentium’s live from her wake up till her time of dreams.

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Neighbours

Darya Cherkashina — Tue, 01 Sep 2020 13:23:00 +0000

Dance and choreography by Maya Popova.

Contemporary dance choreography translated into a domestic environment.

My films exist in the intermediate realm between dance performance and video. This is not pure dance but an attempt to create a new language – a universal one that doesn’t require translation, focused on modernity and close to human experience. The theme and exploration revolve around the problems of our time: loneliness, the acceleration of the pace of life, and the psychological splitting within an individual. The simultaneous experience of living inside and outside society is conveyed through the medium of movement and gesture.

In the videos, I relocate contemporary dance into an overtly mundane domestic setting, a communal kitchen, which is entirely atypical for this genre. In Maya Popova’s film, she “performs for the camera in the genre of contact improvisation.” She choreographs everyday actions while simultaneously projecting the inner world and personal sensations onto the screen. The acceleration and deceleration of movement during the film’s editing also play a structuring role.

In my works, the interaction between the plasticity of movement and the “cosmic” nature of electronic sound is essential. This allows me to transcend the ordinary. The absence of an auditory track in the film is also used as a method, leaving space for viewers to engage in their own rhythmic associations and creating conditions for interpretation.

The videos have been exhibited at various locations, including:

2006: 1st Biennale of Contemporary Art, St. Petersburg.
2007: Espace Croise Festival Program, Paris.
2009: “Inside, I Dance” Solo Exhibition at Irage Gallery, Moscow.
2014: “Not in Fashion” Solo Exhibition at Gislaved Kunsthalle, Sweden.

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Inside

Darya Cherkashina — Wed, 26 Aug 2020 15:05:19 +0000

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Room

Darya Cherkashina — Wed, 26 Aug 2020 14:58:39 +0000

Loneliness, yearning and sadness.

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Nova

Darya Cherkashina — Wed, 15 Jul 2020 17:01:39 +0000

Like a pearl necklace or a serpent from ancient times, the umbilical cord of relationships coils in an infant’s hands. Its presence, tension or absence determines the values of a restricted world, one fenced of by the scope of our understanding.
  Like George, he struggles with it, like Persephone he doesn’t let go of it, like a monk he recounts its members, feeling things that should not be touched.
  A bond is a duration, extent or shortness that implies a breach. Strength and plurality nurture one another, condemning each other to be finite and utterly expended.
  A child is a likeness or a parody, a crooked mirror or a wonderful gift, a temptation or a punishment.
  This set questions permeates the un-answerability of every living being. But while we try to pose them, ask them of ourselves, we can still discover hidden strengths not just to answer them but in order to live.

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Untitled n2

Darya Cherkashina — Thu, 14 May 2020 14:24:07 +0000

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The Vessels Balm

Darya Cherkashina — Thu, 18 Apr 2019 12:29:26 +0000

“Vessels Balm” is an attempt in modern digital simulation of the inner reality of human self, where the inertia of slumber is in harmony with the state of plenitude of entity, and the awakening corresponds to emptiness.

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Bed

Darya Cherkashina — Tue, 16 Apr 2019 14:37:06 +0000

Bed…–the ever-lasting mystery…

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Assembly

Darya Cherkashina — Mon, 18 Dec 2017 14:15:59 +0000

“My first visit to the Hermitage was in my childhood. My recollection of this event consists of everything on the equal basis: pictures, door knobs, sculpture and “golden” ceilings, marble staircases, fragrances, talk of the guides and buzz of the rooms. And of course tiredness as after a long walk. Usually after the first visit to the Hermitage one has some sort of kaleidoscope left in his memories. There is amazement and sensation of a beautiful and festive labyrinth”.

The sound-track is a mix of classical and modern music. The video track shows the Hermitage ceilings with the “looking-glass” effect. The sound and the picture give an impression of “beauty vertigo”, the state in which visitor leaves the Hermitage.

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