Movie Details
Original Language:English
Phenomenon
15 min
Plot
Made from surviving early 1990s hi8 videotape of schwimmen a teenage industrialnoise band from the thenSoviet city of Novosibirsk and comprising footage shot entirely within andor from the seventhfloor apartment where they lived and worked communally phenomenon radiates a sense of cinematic immediacy capturing the lost world of immanence of being and ultimately tapping into vital uncertain energy of the ephemeral paranormal space both historical and metaphorical where the only metaphor is optical The camera pans along frozen squares and zooms into details of the immediate surroundings innocently reinventing tropes from videoart of the preceding two decades the unit of what happens not an event but an experience as it falls oblivion together with the anonymous dreaming collective to which it occurred
