Dir. Elena Muchnaya
Russia 2018
“Sometimes, in days of perfect and precise light, when things have all the reality they can have” score by a contemporary composer (Switzerland), whose name I don’t remember.
a memory… a memory to which we don’t have an access… a meaning… a meaning that we cannot comprehend, or we deny ourselves to comprehend this meaning… something incredibly fragile… something that tremulously, superstitiously, stored…
The woman goes to the sea, brings him an egg – a receptacle for her memory. The egg should calm the sea. But one mistake – a fall – the egg is missed. The result of this error is the appearance of others – fragmentation, an attempt to retain memory, experience. In the end the goal is achieved – the sea is calm and it becomes possible to start a new game.
The film was shot in frames of the Siberian Festival of Contact Improvisation at Altay in 2018.
In this project I also act as director, cameraman, editor and composer.
Elena Muchnaya – Bio
Elena Muchnaya lives in Novosibirsk (Russia). Independent artist, working in a field of visual art: director, filmmaker, photographer –
teaching and facilitating projects, related with film creation.
Cooperates with different dance festivals, residences and theater groups.
Her work is focused on opening up, discovering, “liminal” or “pure” spaces that shift the viewer’s perception or guide towards clear presence.
Often uses contemporary dance, contact improvisation and voice practices in her works.
In 2001 graduated from the Novosibirsk State Academy of Architecture and Art.
From 2016 to 2019 studied at the Individual Directing Workshop under the guidance of Boris Yukhananov.
Since 2009, within the framework of the Siberian International Festival of Contact Improvisation and Performance at Altay,
curating interdisciplinary projects aimed at exploring the space between movement, video and the environment.
Since 2015, together with A. Omelchenko, facilitating the Art-Continuum Nomadic Residence festival –
a creative experiment, multifaceted research, the process of creating short films and performances.
