Mum, Motherland, Lenin
Mama, Rodina, Lenin
Мама, Родина, Ленин
One year of work
The first ideas
collecting material
sketches and texts - before the war
Is about home
school
socialisation
history
propaganda
Horror
past
now
Symmetrical structure materially
not temporally
Documentary footages of Cherepovets from different decades
60s, 70s, 80s, 90s
Documentary footage of my village Glukhoe
2021
Documentary footage of the First Chechen War
Documentary footage of the Soviet Union's war in Afghanistan
Stalin's shooting lists for Kharkiv
in the first grade writing primer
My soviet alphabet book
the sentences from it
montaged into Stalin's shooting lists
A video from Kharkiv after the first bombs
that the guys sent me
who were at our place in March
Polyphony of times
At the beginning I read out Eugene Onegin at the age of five
recorded by my father
At the end I read Eugene Onegin at the age of 38
recorded by myself
At the beginning every five year old syllable granularly frozen
In the course of these 17 minutes the syllables age
Sound ageing echoes flesh ageing
Polyphony of the ages
The syllables speak from the alphabet book
The syllables speak of the Great Terror
Not a 100%-fixed-media thing
At the screening: in the structural middle a live insertion
On YouTube - without