This video work by the young video artist and director Dasha Likhaya has been put together from recordings from her personal archive, shoots made for this film, and found recordings. It is constructed as a new artistic world which is close to the genre of autofiction. The main character in the film talks on the phone to her ex, reading out the text of her film application and sharing everyday news. She experiences discomfort and poeticness during this intimate dialogue, even to the extent of a physical feeling of her own powerlessness.
The artist creates a situation in which the viewer is an accidental witness to private conversations. Documentary and found materials are transformed into artifacts of the artistic world of the film, as if they were part of its reality. The extreme zoom, which makes the images abstract, the superimposition of screens, and the materiality of the screen space support this delicate construction.
Everyday life becomes a field in which deep sensual experiences unfold: the registers of the everyday and the highly emotional alternate and encourage each other.
At Garage the work is presented as an installation: the slight vibrations of the parachute fabric on which it is projected match the film's plot and create a special tactility of perception, changing the geometry and color of the video, but simultaneously saturating them with the randomness of movement.
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