an experimental feature-length video essay on critical theory and technology of contemporary wars
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94 min | ru/en
en-sub and film premiere | an immersive experience and a film exploring what war does to the sense of time and how wartime reshapes human identities
25&26.12 | register for XR
28.12 | video premiere
25&26.12 | register for XR
28.12 | video premiere
96 min | ru/en
en-sub premiere | a performance lecture and collective experience in Theatre.doc exploring grief, grieving and mourning in times of war and other catastrophes
26.12, 6pm (GMT+3) | watch
26.12, 6pm (GMT+3) | watch
110 min | ru/en
film release | an immersive experience and a movie on how memorials make war possible and what will replace the monumental culture which discredited itself in the last century
26&27.12 | register for XR
28.12 | film release
26&27.12 | register for XR
28.12 | film release
60 min | ru/en
* go to crossroad and turn (2019)
* new types of transport (2021) en subs
* feel at least something (2022) en subs
* MOTHERRUSSIA (2019)
* I saw a redheaded boy (2019)
* long waves (2020)
* new types of transport (2021) en subs
* feel at least something (2022) en subs
* MOTHERRUSSIA (2019)
* I saw a redheaded boy (2019)
* long waves (2020)
inside an off-program at 27.12 I'll premiere full videos of six previously unreleased performance works: three performative lectures and three big site-specific performances:
all events at this festival are free, but i invite you to support my work! i'm an indie artist, and i conceive and produce almost all of my projects on my own, without institutional or grant backing. finding funding for experimental work — especially on such topics — is challenging. so if you find what i do interesting or important, there are a few options to support my chances to continue doing it. thx!
1) how digitalization has changed the perception of contemporary warfare and documentation of war crimes (ru / eng)
2) what happens to queer refugees and migrants during the war - now, from ukraine, and in the world in general (ru / eng)
3) how militarization has devoured the remnants of modern culture in russia (eng)
4) how new wars are fought, what is the role of technologization and automation in the war machine today, and why russia with its soviet technologies is losing in an era when connectivity and data are the main weapons (ru / eng).
5) critical war theory today: a summary of the 16 core books (ru)
6) why “russian culture” is a culture of war and what post-russian cultures might look like (The Village, doc)
7) how performance becomes an anti-war tool (eng / ru)
8) how theater and performance help migrants and refugees from war (eng)
9) what is liberal pacification, how war in our time is smeared on everyday life and why the notion that the world is becoming more peaceful is an illusion (ru 1, ru 2)
10) what is prison in a time when prisoners are being recruited for war, what's the prison abolitionist movement and why the prison system cannot be reformed but must be destroyed (ru)
11) how patriarchy and the types of masculinities it produces are the main reason wars exist in the world, and whether a world run by women would be less militarized (ru)
12) a big history and theory of women's anti-war movements (ru)
13) why nuclear deterrence does not work and has never worked (ru)
2) what happens to queer refugees and migrants during the war - now, from ukraine, and in the world in general (ru / eng)
3) how militarization has devoured the remnants of modern culture in russia (eng)
4) how new wars are fought, what is the role of technologization and automation in the war machine today, and why russia with its soviet technologies is losing in an era when connectivity and data are the main weapons (ru / eng).
5) critical war theory today: a summary of the 16 core books (ru)
6) why “russian culture” is a culture of war and what post-russian cultures might look like (The Village, doc)
7) how performance becomes an anti-war tool (eng / ru)
8) how theater and performance help migrants and refugees from war (eng)
9) what is liberal pacification, how war in our time is smeared on everyday life and why the notion that the world is becoming more peaceful is an illusion (ru 1, ru 2)
10) what is prison in a time when prisoners are being recruited for war, what's the prison abolitionist movement and why the prison system cannot be reformed but must be destroyed (ru)
11) how patriarchy and the types of masculinities it produces are the main reason wars exist in the world, and whether a world run by women would be less militarized (ru)
12) a big history and theory of women's anti-war movements (ru)
13) why nuclear deterrence does not work and has never worked (ru)
