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Yasha Vetkin
Yasha Vetkin
Career
Резидент "Cite des arts" в Париже.
Filmography
3
Silent and ringing documentary about the life of the members of the anarchist community "Etsabots". Apostates who do not want to take part in society. Characters creating their own dystopia within the walls of a semi-abandoned building in the center of Tel Aviv. A flickering existence within its own world. Careful contemplation of the surrounding reality, with which the characters of the film do not feel involved. And only one of the characters in the film watches the city with interest through the lens of a Soviet photo gun.
Symposium
3
2017
30 min
An attempt to create a poetic document in the technique of experimental cinema. In order to outline the contours and determine the composition of the surrounding reality. Deviance in relation to the normative film language leads to the appearance of a dialect. And if a trope in literature is a figure of speech, then observation in cinema is a figure of visualization. Comparison of opposite phenomena in terms of form. Continuous monitoring of the outlines, gradation and contrast of phenomena. Pursuing their meanings and listening to their sound. The creation of a poetic document is like a competition for a new genre by fusing opposing disciplines, film and video. A message caught in a half-position, in motion from one meaning to another. Anticipation of possible meanings in the optics of continuous observation of the surrounding reality. And what if reality is just white noise.
The Black and White
3
2016
30 min
Reality is that which is missing the most. An émigré film is acutely aware of the rupture of ties with the usual reality, at the same time it creates a new one and immerses itself in it. The film is in search of a hybrid genre, it presses the boundaries of video art and cinema. At the same time, Émigré explores the possibility of film as a form of literature. Based on the émigré diary tradition, the film creates a visual sequence that is transparent just enough that the past shines through it and superimposed on images of the present. This is how a certain synopsis is created, a summary of not a movie, but a segment of life. The characters in the film talk about their deeply personal traumas in front of the camera, and the experience of these traumas becomes their new reality. This is a film that could not be made, but could be found by its characters. Such a film cannot have a director or actors, only accomplices and victims. Development not only in content, but also in the perception of the image itself, the static nature of photography, the contemplativeness of video are mixed with traditional cinema tools. The film shows the figure of political silence. In the political field, the film speaks of those events that are no longer possible to remain silent, but it is still impossible to speak out. And the more Émigré resists the narrative, the more it sinks into it.
Émigré
3
2015
30 min