Galina Myznikova
2021Pitter-Patter
Galina Myznikova, Sergey Provorov
In their ”Pitter-Patter” video Galina Myznikova and Sergey Provorov are focused on a person as an object which requires a common empathy and contemplation (the work is based on the famous photograph by a 19th century English photographer Henry Peach Robinson). We witness the transition from death to life, but the process of living does not come to an end. It takes the shape of the water, which slowly envelopes the bed, running “pitter-patter”.
Pitter-Patter
Lullaby
Galina Myznikova, Sergey Provorov
The film director’s message addresses the modern world’s vital problem of loss of consideration for an individual man, who is an object requiring global-scale compassion and contemplation. The scenes that were made in a pseudo-documentary manner of the rebellious 1970’s remind of medieval Pieta exalting self-sacrificingness, pain, suffering and religious ecstasy. Richard ‘Hell’ Meyers, one of the representatives of the rock culture of the 70’s, came up with a term of ‘blank generation’ (the term may evidently be interpreted as a ‘lost generation’) to describe himself and his friends and thus advanced a philosophy of people seeking self-destruction. They get involved in meaningless and deadly situations to find a justification for living their lives. The film represents a story about wounded young men, who find themselves on an island and meet there a girl sailing the seas in a military launch, as a metaphor for an attempt to save the ‘blank/lost’ generation.
Lullaby
Fugue
Galina Myznikova, Sergey Provorov
The metaphysical story, which has happened at a concert, forms an outline of the film. The young people who have come to the early music concert instead of taking pleasure from instrument fine sounding, have to struggle with a wind forced by the organ into the music hall. The air streams subjected to musical impulses, run into a listener in spite of his will. Voices are not audible, but they sometimes break through noise of the wind and music. Force of an air influence gives compound psychophysical experiences. Something tries to establish a certain transcendental dialogue, which sets in for a moment, but then disappears… At one time the wind accompanied by low monotonous organ noise, brings motionless sitting people to certain unconsciousness, to mad activity: fight is started at the concert
Fugue
Eternity
Galina Myznikova, Sergey Provorov
An absurd landscape with a form recirculating in its narrative tradition is transformed by the artists into interdisciplinary statement about loss of a message, impossibility of a dialogue, labyrinth of meanings. Monotony of action inclines to multitude of associations: myth about Sisyphus; Frieda of Bulgakov, who is constantly offered a handkerchief; grown-up daughter of Stalker, roaming in the Zone which gives neither fulfillment of desires, nor relief. The authors slowly immerse viewers into multilayered space, where surrounding reality is dissolving, and so is human sight, which rediscovers itself on the border in searches of initial static point. Such creative exercises can also be marked by rather expected desire to arrange knowledge and understanding of cinematograph in contemporary context of visual communication and conversion of created work into completely different, unexplored quality of the art.
Eternity
