Author Archives for D'EST

Izdeu

June 12, 2023 10:09 am Published by D'EST Comments Off on Izdeu

Izdeu is a Kazakh word for ‘search.’ The film is an exploration of convoluted trajectories of seven generations of the...

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Moldakul

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Moldakul is a tribute to the author’s elder friend and spiritual teacher, the renowned Kazakh artist Moldakul Narymbetov (1948–2012). The...

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My Mother’s Wound

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My Mother’s Wound is an autobiographical short documentary dealing with a certain kind of a generational trauma, which seems quite...

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POST-DIY

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POST-DIY is directed at the circumstances surrounding the bombing attack of the queer bar in Yerevan called ‘DIY.’ It aims...

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Fountain Action. Police threaten Citizen with Psychiatric Ward

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In Armenia, a person can be forcibly checked into a psychiatric hospital by a police officer’s decision. One widely covered...

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Pearlshower Ceremonial Event

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This is a video document of a clandestine queer ceremony that took place in Almaty on the premises of a...

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À Í A

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“Near my village most land has been sold, saved for the modest graveyard off in the distance.” A self-produced music...

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Sing an Idle Song

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Spaces are constantly overlaid over one another, like a window, a crack. A middle-aged man plays the guitar while singing...

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PIRATED!

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The video unites two moments of Vietnamese history — the aftermath of 1975 and the normalization of diplomatic relations between...

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In Bloom

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Bính’s family has run a flower farm for a few generations. His flowers bloom under the shadow of the cathedral...

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Shut Up White Boy

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When a white young man brings his newest Filipino girlfriend to an Asian restaurant, weird happenings ensue. The film by...

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My Everything

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In this performance, a music video is played live in a loop. The artist makes everyday gestures, washing her face,...

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Ja i AIDS (eng. Me and AIDS)

December 4, 2021 10:35 am Published by D'EST Comments Off on Ja i AIDS (eng. Me and AIDS)

Artur Żmijewski’s video Ja i AIDS (eng. Me and AIDS) (1996) emphasizes the role of the body as an expressive...

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Welcome

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In his discussion of masochism, Freud defines two phases: in the first phase, the child sees another child being beaten...

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Chanoyu

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Between 1973 and 1992, Croatian artists Sanja Iveković and Dalibor Martinis worked together sharing interest in social and political issues....

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Kiss

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The recording of the performance Kiss (1996) by Mare Tralla bears witness to the escalation of gender rivalry in the...

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Order

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The video work of Kristina Inčiūraitė Order (2004) is a part of the series Stages made between 2002 and 2005...

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The Moon and the Sunshine

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The Moon and The Sunshine (2000) is an early work of Boryana Rossa which touches upon several semantic layers and...

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Who is Afraid of Ideology? Part 1 & 2

December 3, 2020 12:00 pm Published by D'EST Comments Off on Who is Afraid of Ideology? Part 1 & 2

The wild species of carnation (qirnefîl in Kurdish, dianthus in Latin) are at home in the lands around the Mediterranean...

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Memory of Blind Elephant

December 2, 2020 5:05 pm Published by D'EST Comments Off on Memory of Blind Elephant

Đa búp đỏ translates as red buds. They belong to a community of fig trees whose survival depends on symbioerotic...

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Resiliencia Tlacuache (Opossum Resilience)

December 1, 2020 1:58 pm Published by D'EST Comments Off on Resiliencia Tlacuache (Opossum Resilience)

Magueys (Agave in English, agave americana in Latin) move and multiply by seeds and via clonal mechanisms. They are native...

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Freiheit 3

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Giant reeds (Riesenschilf in German, arundo donax in Latin) have been cultivated in damp soils of temperate, subtropical and tropical...

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Who Is Afraid of Ideology? Part I

December 13, 2018 9:30 am Published by D'EST Comments Off on Who Is Afraid of Ideology? Part I

“I don’t want the human to be in nature, as if nature is a container. … thinking isn’t the other...

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Manifesto of the Liberated Pixel

December 12, 2018 7:06 pm Published by D'EST Comments Off on Manifesto of the Liberated Pixel

Considering the etymological roots of manifest as ‘clearly revealed’ and ‘caught by hand,’ the work revels in contradiction. If at...

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Charming for the Revolution

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“The film is charming, but it is still labor. The labor to engage in demanding what should already be ours.”...

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towards memory

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The title Towards Memory (2016) alludes to a distance, a gap, a split, but also desire, movement, and oscillation. The...

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disruption (aksama)

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Leaving the oikos, a figure goes for a walk down the street of a nondescript city. On the pavements are...

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Staging Actors / Staging Beliefs (Boško Buha)

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Historical experience is not given; it is genuinely relational. History is in flux because relations between people, the world, nature,...

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Ručak (Lunch)

November 26, 2018 9:31 am Published by D'EST Comments Off on Ručak (Lunch)

The lunch – before it became a business lunch or a lunch break – was a central, ritualized event bringing...

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Portrait of MM

November 21, 2018 11:53 am Published by D'EST Comments Off on Portrait of MM

In 1964, a year after her mother’s death, Simone de Beauvoir published an account of the final six weeks of...

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Home Movies

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The mother of Vukica Đilas, Mitra Mitrović, was a drugarica (a female comrade) – the figure within the partisan resistance...

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Dear Animal

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Dear Animal is the story of a group of petty drug dealers who cannot find their stash because the pusher...

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Film Note (for The Gas Imaginary)

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When we last spoke,  I told you I was torq-ing  this difference between mine and manpower.  The efforts.  Because of...

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33 Situations (Excerpt)

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In 1935 Andrei Platonov wrote the screenplay Father-Mother. At the time he was also working on his (unfinished) novel Happy...

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Three Mothers and a Chorus

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Given voice, space and time, motherhood can, and should, be one of the central means through which a historical moment...

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Former East/Former West

October 8, 2018 6:15 am Published by D'EST Comments Off on Former East/Former West

In the framework of the DAAD Artists-Program, filmmaker Shelly Silver spent several months in Berlin in 1992 when she conducted...

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A Bit of a Complex Situation

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A Bit of a Complex Situation is an intervention into footage from the first meeting of the Central Round Table...

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Mass Ornament #1. Watch out for gorillas in your midst!

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Mass Ornament #1. Watch out for gorillas in your midst! (2014) by Marta Popivoda and Ana Vujanović investigates one of...

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The Common Sense (Phase 1-3, Episodes 1-15)

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The Common Sense (2014) by Melanie Gilligan is an experimental narrative drama in the style of a television miniseries consisting...

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GRAD

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The film GRAD (2004) reflects female perspectives on the experiences of a community that has lost its motherland thirteen years after...

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Premium Connect

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Premium Connect envisions a study of information and communication technologies (ICT). It explores African divination systems, the fungi underworld, ancestors’...

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Die Umschulung (eng.Retraining)

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Die Umschulung (eng. Retraining) is a documentary film bearing the typical marks of Harun Farocki: uncommented, everyday scenes – as...

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Seduction of a Cyborg

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Lynn Hershman Leeson has been exploring the impact and potential of nascent technologies in relation to gender, sexuality, and disembodiment...

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Triangular Stories (AMNESIA & TERROR)

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While the atmosphere boils somewhere in the middle of Germany and teenage revelers rave to the anthem “You’re making me...

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Almost Nothing

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We are said to be living in a time of flow, although more often than not, we come across obstacles...

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my castle your castle

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my castle your castle features a television broadcast from within the skeleton of what is becoming the ‘new’ Berliner Schloss....

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Trùng Mù (Endless, Sightless)

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Trùng Mù (Endless, Sightless) begins with two figures behind a curtain patterned with foliage: a feminized cyborg is bent over...

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The Fog

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Ever since I found out about Ilona Németh’s video recording of the public intervention The Fog (2013), I dreamed about...

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A Feature Shared by All

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The fragmentary narrative of Maja Čule’s A Feature Shared by All (2017) examines airports as a place where economic divisions...

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Self-Optimization

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Now we know: according to the results of various contradictory experiments in psychological research, there is no sound evidence for...

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Vi Nemate Pojma (You Have No Idea)

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Vi Nemate Pojma (You Have No Idea) is a live piece that is to be performed, where I continually repeat...

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Между здесь и там (Between Here and There)

October 6, 2018 12:14 pm Published by D'EST Comments Off on Между здесь и там (Between Here and There)

Every time when I went into the city, at the moment when I began to feel helpless, bare, at the...

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Queue

June 30, 2018 3:01 pm Published by D'EST Comments Off on Queue

To recreate the atmosphere of waiting, that is essential for the piece, the artist has decided to set screening times,...

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Glauben Sie nicht, dass ich eine Amazone bin.

June 27, 2018 1:16 pm Published by D'EST Comments Off on Glauben Sie nicht, dass ich eine Amazone bin.

In Glauben Sie nicht, dass ich eine Amazone bin. (eng.: Do not believe I am an Amazon. / Don’t you...

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From My Window 1978-1999

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From My Window 1978–1999 is the most popular work by Polish artist Józef Robakowski. It is a long-term documentary project...

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Today Is 11th June 1993

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„Today is 11th June, 1993. The war has been going on for a very long time. I’ve tried everything to...

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For Guilty without Guilt. Trap. Expulsion from Paradise

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For Guilty without Guilt. Trap. Expulsion from Paradise was created specifically as a two-part work for the public space in...

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Punane Koit (Red Dawn)

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Red Dawn (Punane Koit) documents the action of restoring the letters of the sign on the rooftop of a hosiery...

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Press House

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Press House is a twenty-two story building in Riga, built in 1978 to host different publishing houses, editorial offices of...

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12-Hour Working Day

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The performance 12–Hour Working Day examines production conditions under contemporary capitalism and the labor policies and working conditions of female...

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Instructions No. 2

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INSTRUCTIONS No. 2 is a remake of Iveković’s famous early work Instructions No. 1 (1976) in which the artist looks...

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Vocabulary Lesson (part 1)

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The backdrop to the CORO performance Vocabulary Lesson is the Vilnius Palace of Concerts and Sports. The site has a...

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Vocabulary Lesson (part 2)

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The backdrop to the CORO performance Vocabulary Lesson is the Vilnius Palace of Concerts and Sports. The site has a...

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Debates on Division: When Private Becomes Public

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The idea for Debates on Division was developed after the annexation of Crimea in 2014 and during the escalation of...

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The Lesson

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The work, conceived as a video performance, is a critical view of current modes of political education in Russia. The...

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Šapći-pričaj-pjevaj-viči (Whisper-Talk-Sing-Scream)

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This piece explores the ways in which class and gender divisions in society can be articulated by means of music....

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To Prague With Love

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Like many other works by Ira Eduardovna, To Prague with Love is an attempt to place the memories of her...

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