Anna Tsyrlina

Здорово и вечно

Anna Tsyrlina, Natalya Chumakova

Egor Letov, Sergey Letov

The film details the early years of the legendary Siberian Punk/Rock group 'Гражданская Оборона' (Grazhdanskaya Oborona), and its frontman, Egor Letov.

All other things Equal

Anna Tsyrlina

Tsyrlina’s radical found footage film subjects frames and sequences taken from Soviet propaganda about women’s equality to a cinematic archaeology, unearthing a sensuous and discreetly subversive movement within the material’s interstices and ellipses.

Живи

Anna Tsyrlina, Sid Iandovka

Six minutes of dancing and trances, a spontaneous orgiastic performance slowed down and drowned in digital effects and overlays. The music heard off screen is written by Sid Iandovka and is as rhythmic as it is viscous. The movements of bodies and costumes hint at both playful carnivals and mysterious rituals.

Horizõn

Anna Tsyrlina, Sid Iandovka

A random seventies newsreel from the artists’ hometown in Soviet Siberia forms the substratum for a relentless exploration of representational and narrative strategies: without ever collapsing into a ‘story’ or abstraction, the film recants the relationship between analogue and digital, surface and reference, sense and experience, past and present. –Thomas Zummer

Phenomenon

Anna Tsyrlina, Sid Iandovka

Made from surviving early 1990s 'hi8' videotape of "schwimmen," a teenage industrial/noise band from the (then-Soviet) city of Novosibirsk, and comprising footage shot entirely within and/or from the seventh-floor apartment where they lived and worked communally, "phenomenon" radiates a sense of cinematic immediacy, capturing the lost world of immanence of being and ultimately tapping into vital, uncertain energy of the ephemeral “paranormal” space - both historical and metaphorical - where the only metaphor is optical. The camera pans along frozen squares and zooms into details of the immediate surroundings - innocently reinventing tropes from video-art of the preceding two decades: the unit of “what happens” not an event, but an experience, as it falls oblivion together with the anonymous dreaming collective to which it occurred.

Сигнал/Шум

Anna Tsyrlina, Sid Iandovka

The most recent work presented in the retrospective, assembled primarily from the directors’ own archives and depicting Novosibirsk’s music scene of the 1990s. A fragmented form and shifting rhythm characterise the visual element of the film as well as its auditory dimension. Guitar noise dissolves into hauntological film loops and indistinct speech merges with fragments of radio and television broadcasts.

193 октиллиона

Anna Tsyrlina, Sid Iandovka

The birth of a new era in the first years of perestroika with its enthusiasm for clairvoyance and the dying practice of shooting on film are both contained within a single minute of screen time, during which a mnemonist ‘recalls’ an infinitely large number displayed on a board behind him.

Meteor

Anna Tsyrlina

‘And so I hid in caverns in the mountains; I began to wander, like a meteor’