FEMALE'S VIEW
2001

Arsinkey Anzhela, Darfi Olya, Detkina Tanya, Egorova Olga (Tsaplya), Stolpovskaya Olga, Chuykova Masha

Works by Women Artists Living in Russia.

Curator – Nina Zaretskaya,
the founding director of Art Media Center "TV Galle ry" (Moscow).

Annotations to the video works from the compilation tape

1. THE BATS
Directed by Tatiana Detkina
7 min., HI-8, 1995
The first experiment of the author in joining video and different kinds of digital animation. The basis of the plot, i.e. forced transformation of a bat into a teddy-bear, was caused by communication with biologists. It got several awards: "The 3rd Reality” in St.Petersburg (first award), "The 5th World Video Festival" in Brussel.

video: 128 kbps. fragment

2. TOYS THE SPIES
Directed by Tatiana Detkina
12 min. 24 sec., HI-8, 1997
Bloodcurdling stories which happen to the heroes of the film, can’t get any sensible explanation. Small and seemingly harmless electrical monsters cause a mystical mutation of people.

3. NOTES FOR AN IDEAL SWEETHEART
Directed by Olga Yegorova, Natalia Pershina-Yakimanskaya
4 min. 53 sec., Betacam, 1999
A famous couple from St. Petersburg, Tsaplya and Gluklya, work on the edge between art and fashion. Their favourite genre is live performance, sometimes turned into a video film. In this particular piece a woman’s dress becomes a film hero and lives its own life. Its suffering and Death acquire a symbolic meaning, turning into a message to a beloved one.

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4. THE WHITES
Directed by Olga Yegorova, Natalia Pershina-Yakimanskaya
2 min. 22 sec., Betacam, 1999
A trilogy made on the basis of the following performances: "The Whites in a Scottish Castle", "The Whites Visiting a Princess", "The Whites in a Pub". The heroes of these video performances are sexless creatures wearing snow-white clothes and trying to get in touch with people.

5. KON-TIKI
Directed by Olga Kumeger
6 min. 28 sec., VHS, 1998
The artist’s films (## 8-12) are based on a computer editing of various elements which differ from each other in configuration, colour and content. The fragments of the objects and the portraits, brought together in a digital format, form the complex theatrical spaces. With the help of computer the author "draws" architectural forms, figurative and abstract images.

6. THROAT (GORLO)
Directed by Olga Kumeger
7 min. 20 sec., VHS, 1997

video: 128 kbps. fragment

7. CASSIOPEJA
Directed by Olga Kumeger
9 min. 7 sec., VHS, 1997

8. KALEIDA
Directed by Olga Kumeger
1 min. 22 sec., VHS, 1998

9. METAMORPHOSES
Directed by Olga Kumeger
4 min., VHS, 1999

10. WIT WORKS WOE
Directed by Olga Tobreluts
6 min. 11 sec., Betacam, 1996
An original interpretation of A. Griboedov comedy "Wit Works Woe" performed in a pretty ironical way. The casting is also remarkable: T. Novikov, I. Kuksenaite, V. Mamishev-Monro, Yu. Lesnik, A. Kholobistin – are famous characters of St.-Petersburg contemporary art scene.

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11. EXPLORATORY LABORATORY #3
Directed by Olga Tobreluts
9 min. 7 sec., Betacam, 1996
A human-being as a pattern, one of the components making a complex picture of the space surrounding us.

12. AILOSTERA
Directed by Olya Darfi
11 min. 20 sec., Hi-8, 1998
An incredible coincidence, which happened in the life of the already bored newly-weds, brought them again to the real love.

video: 128 kbps. fragment

13. THREE VERSES LIBRE
Directed by Natalia Borisova
3 min. 30 sec., VHS, 1997
An attempt to synthecize the polar concepts: female – male, militarism – feminism.

14. INFINITIevil
Directed by Natalia Borisova
3 min. 42 sec., VHS, 1997
A clip-collage made of different parts of the human body.

15. THE HEAVEN
Directed by Olga Stolpovskaya.
23 min., Beta SP, color, 1999.
The year of 1999. They are to get an answer to the key question of Being.
At the turn of the epochs young artists and common people from Russia and Europe answer only one question asked by the author of the film: What does Heaven mean? This film can be interpreted as a sort of a documentary – provocation with respect to actors and viewers. The challenge of this provocative action is to study a spiritual paradigm by means of a documentary as a genre.

video: 128 kbps. fragment

16. RA
Directed by Masha Khovenko
2 min. 20 sec., Betacam, 1997
Production Department, 1st year,
Kobrin Studio, State Institute of Cinematography.
A nostalgic sketch – a composition based on old photographs and children’s drawings.

17. SHE
Directed by Radda Novikova
3 min. 47 sec., Betacam, 1997
Production Department, 1st year,
Kobrin Studio, State Institute of Cinematography
A sketch about a girl searching for love.

18. WIDELY-READ HOUSEWIFE
Directed by Masha Chuikova
10 min. 41 sec., Mini DV, 1999
A pretty odd widely-read housewife is making cleaning in an amasing way: first in Russian style, then in German. She cleans and washes, but all in the wrong way: instead of the plates she washes the books, and vice versa, the plates are being treated as books.

video: 128 kbps. fragment

19. UNDERWEAR. METHODOLOGICAL OBSERVATION ON DOMESTICATION AND RESEARCH
Directed by Olga Yegorova
12 min. 38 sec., Betacam, 2000
A long lecture on the results of studying the nature of women’s underwear.

video: 128 kbps. fragment

20. ASME TODI
Directed by Angela Arsinkey.
4 min., VHS, color, 2000.
"Asme todi" means "to know oneself" in the Udmurt language.
The spontaneous performance by artist’s relatives and countrymen neighbors, executed according to the script known only to them Udmurts, the far north minority, happened to be recorded by chance. The author just put this vivid material into the context of art. As a result, we are presented with an amazing picture which came out of characteristic Udmurt behavior: to hide from the strangers’ eyes and, thus feeling safe, to give the way out for the energy of their pagan roots.

video: 128 kbps. fragment

21. BUTTERFLY
Directed by Lena Kovilina
2 min. 31 sec., Hi-8, 1999
A chrysalis, a caterpillar, a beautiful butterfly. The life of insects sometimes is similar to our own life.

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