SELECTED VIDEO-PHOTO PROJECTS
 
 
Runner and Presence

...and God Bless America

Evening Song – Indiscipline

Terminal 1 ("Day At The Terminal")

Confession

Animal Farm

Terminal 2 (Night at the Airport),

Terminal 3 (Terminal Dream)

On The Wing

Before They Were Beatles

Terminal Heart

Queen Mary (Return Home)

Closer To Fall

 

 

 

 

 

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Runner and Presence

 
 
 
 

 
4-channel asynchronous video installation 
soundtrack by the artist (9:14 min) 


Series of 6 photographic works based on the video

 
"Presence" is a video projection consisting of a sequence of handmade frames rendered and based on anonymous documentary film footage dating back to World War II. "Abandonment of El Alamein - The Runner" - the artist's second video projection where the question of the relationship between war and its' mediation through the filter of image-reproduction is central.
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God Bless America

 
 
 
 
 
4-channel synchronized video black-and-white and color

4-channel sound composition by the artist; approximate duration 10 min. 

The project includes series of 12 cibachrome photographic works
 

documentatyfilm recordings from different time periods in 20th century American history with restaged artists videos
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Evening Song

 
 
 
 
 
2-channel synchronized video installation, 5 min 30 sec, colour, surround sound, 
HD format 
Music by Robert Fripp and Brian Eno from the album "Evening Star" 
Real-time animation based on multiple video tracks. 
 
This is an ongoing project dedicated to visualization of soundscaping and frippertronics invented by Brian Eno and Robert Fripp.'Frippertronics' often is associated with so-called 'ambient music', as it does easily enable one to set in motion a quasi-automatic process for creating slowly evolving timbres with minimal shifts of accents within a steady stream of 'waves of sound'
 
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Terminal 1 ("Day At The Terminal")

 
 
 
 

 
1-channel digital video/ animation loop, HDTV and DVD, color, stereo loop, 6:59 minutes. Music by Brian Eno & J. Peter Schwalm 


Series of photographs works related to the video.


"Terminal" is a single channel video/sound installation.Filmed almost immediately after September 11th in New York, the Terminal series of videos and photographs was influenced by the inconceivable human horror the artist had witnessed (as his studio was located within two blocks from the Twin Towers). In this work, air travel becomes a metaphor for the inconsistent or lost identity typical of contemporary art; the artist uses this metaphor in a sense to eliminate time and space itself as the template with which we view the world. The Terminal seems to be set for a multi-layered reconnaissance of globalization, "homeland security", faith, America and, ultimately, the consciousness of an average contemporary person. But "air travel" is still a metaphor that depends on a scheduled departure and arrival time, one that takes us on a predetermined flight path.

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Confession

 
 
 
 

 
4-channel synchronized digital video, DVDs, color, 4-channel stereo sound. 
Total duration 16 minutes per channel,


Series of 20 photo works related to the video, most shot in a large format 
("Cathedral", "Mirror", "In The River" and others)


"Confession" is a 4-channel video/sound installation. This project is built on real and imaginary action - a young girl applying herself to the toughest layers of history she read or heard about. She is reminiscent of Alice in tragic Wonderland or of Shakespearean Ophelia with her longing for simplicity.


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Animal Farm

 
 
 
 
 
1-channel synchronous video, DVDs, color, stereo, 11 min. 
soundtrack by the artist.

This video installation is about undying nature on the background of the hi-tech development of civilization and tolerance. The film consists of interchangeable shocking clips - recordings of the cruelty in the modern world, samples of contemporary weapon's technology. Pictures were taken primarily at the nighttime war operations - full of cruelty, uncertainty and absurdity. The real animals shown are not the product of animation, human laws or ideologies; they are used by civilization and subjected to its cruelty in many fields
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Terminal 2 (Night at the Airport)

 
 
 
 
 
1-channel digital video/animation loop, HD format, color, stereo loop, 7:40 minutes 
Music by Brian Eno & J. Peter Schwalm


"Terminal 2" and later "Terminal 3" ("Terminal Dream") (2003) was an ongoing project that had begun in the wake of September 11th attack on the World Trade Center. "Terminal" as a title has multi-layered meaning itself - it is an airport terminal where we arrive at some point in life and depart from at another moment; it may become your short-term shelter; it may end one part of your life and take you away to a totally new destination. It also carries a meaning of the things being terminal in life, with no cure but predictably ending, and termination of the past might bring you into another stage of your life.

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Terminal 3 (Terminal Dream)

 
 
 
 
 
1-channel digital video/animation loop, HD format, color, stereo loop, 8:10 minutes 
Music by Brian Eno & J. Peter Schwalm


"Terminal-3", or "Terminal Dream", is the last of the "Terminal" series video – after "Terminal 1" ("Day at the terminal") and "Terminal 2" ("Terminal at night"). Both – "Day" and "Night" "Terminals" are staged at the same location, but offer experience, effects and symbols in a complementing one another manner.


"Terminal Dream" is the place on the borderline between being and non-being, a ceaseless state of being both in space and time, in infinity and in eternity. Streamline of frames in this series is literally disassembled and dispersed into fragments.

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On The Wing (Terminal 4)

 
 
 
 
 
1-channel digital video/animation loop, HDTV, color, stereo, 12 minutes 
soundtrack by Brian Eno from the album "Music For Airports" 
The photographic series include 12 images, printed as digital cibachromes .

 

 

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Before They Were Beatles

 
 
 
 
 
4–channel synchronized video projection, approx. time 18 min. HD – XGA format, color, surround Dolby Digital sound. Original format: DVCAM; Projection format for synchronized 4-channels: D16 (2880), aspect ratio 1:6 
Music by Bruno Hoffman. Soundtrack by the artist. 

Project includes series of 12 photographs related to the video..

 

The project involves much staged activity and grows closer to the cinematography genre than any of the previous works. Through the images of the pop culture, four teenagers are trying to analyze temptation of fame and resistance to the loss of identity. 
The project "Before They Were Beatles" presents a 4-channel synchronized film projection.
Accompanying photographs are related to the subject of the film and are shot and printed in large-scale format (from 48x60 to 77x96 inches). Individual photographs were staged and produced at the same time when the film was shot

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1–channel video, colour, 7:10 min, HD format, computer-coded animation 
Music by Brian Eno and J.Peter Schwalm 
Project includes photographs and video stills  .

 

"Terminal Heart" is about each person’s spiritual dimension; although difficult to accept, facing terminal illness can be a stimulus for spiritual growth. The environment of an air terminal in his work is meant to shape and enhance one’s spirituality in times of adversity and despair. .

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Queen Mary ("Return Home")

 
 
 
 
 
1–channel video, colour, 12:05 minutes, HD format, computer-coded animation 
Project includes photographs and video stills

The Queen Mary (2) revived the name of a liner that pursued the same passage a half-century earlier. During World War II, the Queen Mary and its sister ship, Queen Elizabeth, became troopships, fast enough to outpace enemy submarines. From March 1940 through September 1946 she carried almost eight hundred thousand of military personnel. She delivered wounded returning to the USA and carried thirteen thousand soldiers' brides and babies from Europe.  

The film includes analog and documentary footage along with computer animation

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Closer To Fall

 
 
 
 
 
1–channel video, colour, 4:10 minutes, HD format, computer animation

 

 


four seasons changing in front of you with a girl frozen in time, drinking milk from a cup, sip by sip

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