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Postcard from Australia, 2005-2006 Single-channel Digital Video, Colour, Stereo Sound, Duration: 2 min. 14 sec. Observational video work accompanied by "Varshavianka" – a Polish song, written at the end of 19th century, popular in Russia during the revolutions of 1905 and 1917. Social / Political Film Award Winner of Sydney Underground Film Festival, the Factory Theatre, 7-10 Sept 2007, Sydney, Australia Screened as part of the Drift - Video works #5, Sydney Moving Image Coalition screening event curated by David Mackenzie at the Fig Tree Theatre, UNSW Kensington, Sydney http://www.squatspace.com/smic/ Postcard from Australia, 2007 Dual-channel Video Installation, Colour, Stereo Sound, 5000 Postcards
Aurora, 2004-2006 Digital Video, Colour, Stereo Sound, Duration: 1 min. 50 sec. Shot in Plovdiv, Bulgaria from a terrace in a block of flats of the outskirt suburb of Trakia, the camera browses through the suburban scape in a cold winter morning. Screened at the Drift - Video works #5, Sydney Moving Image Coalition screening event curated by David Mackenzie at the Fig Tree Theatre, UNSW Kensington, Sydney http://www.squatspace.com/smic/
Advance!, 2005 Digital Video, Colour, Stereo Sound, Duration: 3 min. 30 sec. The visual track depicts the determined movement of two hands holding a compass along a sheep trail in the long-dry Lake George, an Australian landscape mark. The soundtrack plays the famous Russian revolutionary song “Cвещенная война” (“Holy War”, music by A. Alexandrov, lyrics by V. Lebedev-Koumach), written in 1941 to summon people to unleash their rage in a people’s war against the Nazi invasion of Russia. The movement of the compass stops abruptly at the sight of a cross-road, which raises questions about the effects of choice and democracy on the strength of past and contemporary socio-cultural movements. Presented at Area – Video works #2, Sydney Moving Image Coalition screening event curated by Atanas Djonov at the Fig Tree Theatre, UNSW Kensington, Sydney http://www.squatspace.com/smic/
Moving, 2002 Digital Video, Colour, Duration: 4 min. 24 sec. A minimalist work depicting a radio scale, with its hand slowly moving from the left to the right side of the screen, browsing through radio stations. The picked-up sounds symbolise a life journey. Screened at AV Out Screen and Sound Art Exhibition at Blacktown Arts Centre Exhibition, October 2005 http://www.blacktown.nsw.gov.au/news-and-events/news-media-releases/oct-05/av-out.cfm
A Film, 2000 Digital Video, Colour, Stereo Sound, Duration: 16 min. 20 sec. This is an experimental video the underlying idea of which is that people’s creativity and imagination are nurtured through our attempts to resolve tension. The work juxtaposes two different planes: vision and sound. While the written text and the image of the sky are minimalist in style, the sound (including dramatic, but hardly articulate human speech segments) is multi-layered and chaotic. It is the juxtaposition of the two planes that provokes the viewer to create meaning and thereby come to terms with their incompatibility. The work questions the definition of film and the way in which a film’s structure is dependent upon the use of key semiotic systems the visual, the verbal, and the audio - that people as social beings have developed during their evolution. In addition, the work also implicitly criticises the commercial use of symbolic clichés. Screened as part of d>ART02 International Showcase of Experimental Media Art at Dendy Opera Quays, Part of the 49th Annual Sydney Film Festival http://www.dlux.org.au/dart02/index.html
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