Despair

Darya Cherkashina — Tue, 03 Apr 2018 14:02:42 +0000

…in “Despair” the situation becomes more complex in the shock between the human being and nature. We see in the inhospitable environment of a frozen landscape, completely white, bodies that move and try, in a weird choreography, to be adjusted to nature generating extremely well composed images in the formal direction, emphasized for the quality of the photograph in black and white. In the apparent calm of the frozen forest the disorder approaches with the arrival of the human group and their fine twigs as an impossible disguise.In the almost empty landscape they dislocate through the space, sometimes between thin trees that are intercalated with images of the forest, in different plans and compositions, almost without any movement. The suspense of the track does not correspond to the movements and to the actions that we see in the image, generating much uneasiness since everything seems to oscillate between drama and almost the comedy. The ways to articulate the supposed narrative, the tensions of the edition and the track form a multiple set that points out with respect to one total opening in the directions of the image.

How to disguise yourself in the middle of the nature, how to survive? And the crows? Do they fly or only hide us from the momentaneous possibility of being able to fly higher, to escape, to disappear in the middle of the immense sky? There is a strange ambiguity in the images, perhaps a trace that approaches the works of Galina Myznikova & Sergey Provorov of the vanguards.

(excerpt from “New Russian Vanguards”, Eduardo de Jesus, curator of project “Imagem Pensamento”, Brasil)

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Inspiration

Darya Cherkashina — Tue, 03 Apr 2018 13:34:06 +0000

Mysterious human figures, head down, are moving along the river. The colors of their clothes are mixed with green and brown muddy water and mud. The gestures and choreography of their bodies and the elements of nature mark the slow passing of time. Powerful, disturbing and incomprehensible, with an extraordinary technical and formal care, the new video of the pair of Russian artists Myznikova and Provorov (together they are known as Provmyza) is a new chapter in their creation, a primitive apocalyptic dimension, in which humanity and its rituals seem to appear for the first time; Man and Nature celebrate the ritual of their meeting.

A certain expression philosophical views about the Nature, making impression of inner and immanent unity, essential sameness of Man and Nature. The Nature here is not so much part of space with the figures of people located in it. There is a certain environment reproducing a certain state of the soul. It is the world of slowed down time, metamorphoses of space, tense silence and, finally, poetics of anxiety.

Narration here is dissolved in system of visual images, leaving only sensations.Steered only by the river current the boat is left to the mercy of wild Nature. The people have stiffened in tense expectation and stare into the water depths. Certain tension between the water and the people arises in the boat with an expectation that something is about to happen. The river tempts the people to be forever upset, lost and drowned in the strange and restless environment.

The people veiled by trees and bushes, a strange creature hiding in the water, the faces covered by hair – all of these create an atmosphere of obscurity, secrecy and invisibility. The vagueness and mysteriousness of the actions as well as the unsteadiness of the arising images create an effect of anxious observation of Nature and represent the theme of human hopelessness and despair.

Display instructions

1. Media player (connected with a hard drive or USB flash card)   - 1 piece 
2. Video projector with 16:9 resolution (“widescreen”) - 1 piece
	Full HD
	Technology: DLP
	Contrast min. 3 000:1
	Brightness min. 5 000 lumens
3. Amplifier (1 piece) with optical or RCA (Audio R/L) in.
4. Subwoofer (1 piece)
5. Speakers (2 pieces): min 200 Watt for each
6. Optical cabel to connect media player with an amplifier
7. Audio cabels (RCA) to connect media player wth an amplifier 
8. Acoustic cabels for connection between two speakers and subwoofer

Space:
1. Isolated, close and deeply dark (like a cinema hall).
2. The projection wall coincides with a projection by the size.

Additional details

script: G.Myznikova, S.Provorov / PROVMYZA
directors: Galina Myznikova & Sergey Provorov / PROVMYZA
camera: Sergey Provorov, Andrey Skvorzov
support: NCCA (Volga branch, Russia) and KW14 (The Netherlands)
production: Provmyza2010

SCREENING:

;67th Venice Film Festival, La Biennal di Venezia. Venice, Italy

;The Great South – 1st Montevideo Biennial, Banco Republica

17th International Contemporary Art Festival SESC Videobrasil. Sao Paulo, Brasil

Tomorrow – International film festival, CHA. Moscow, Russia

Zerkalo – TarkovskyFest International Film Festival. Ivanovo, Russia

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