Alexandra Karelina

Бобок

Alexandra Karelina, Ivan Yakushev

Video by Alexandra Karelina and Ivan Yakushev refers to Dostoevsky's deep interest in borderline states—primarily death, but also lethargy. In Bobok, the narrator, out of boredom, goes to a funeral of a distant relative. Later, taking thought, he lies down on a tombstone and begins to hear the dead, who continue to talk to each other as if by inertia. The authors of the film translate imagery and tone of this story into a ritual action. Abstract space of fabrics, industrial materials, and human body transforms and disintegrates, blurring the line between living and inanimate.

Кейджи Хайно

Alexandra Karelina

Kenji Haino

The film about the legend of Japanese experimental rock Keiji Haino reveals the veil of mystery surrounding the musician for all 50 years of his career. Haino's reflections on music, culture and life, recorded after a performance in Moscow in November 2019, are interspersed with fragments of the performance itself.

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Alexandra Karelina, Alexandra Karelina

The film’s main protagonists are household items of the 1950s-1970s shot on film. Their path goes from the written to the erased. From the clear to the forgotten. Obsession with the past — this is their space. The images gradually become and blurred down to pure emotion. Nothing can be saved, and it is impossible to return anywhere. This is a film where the characters take the stage for the last time.

Largo Ma Non Tanto

Alexandra Karelina

The film is about the flickering time of travel in unfamiliar space. This video sequence, sound track and text, communicating with each other through roll calls, resonances and random coincidences. Together they form an unstable object, a movie about architecture and music, immovable and racing.