“An unremarkable random 70’s newsreel from the artists’ hometown in the Soviet Siberia forms the substrate for a relentless exploration of the representational and narratological technics: without ever collapsing into a ‘story’ or abstraction, horizōn recants the relationship between analog and digital, surface and reference, sense and experience, past and present.”
Over the past two decades, Sid Iandovka and Anya Tsyrlina have developed a body of work that draws on the afterlife of avant-garde film, anachronic collages from Soviet archives, and the last vestiges of obscure underground music scenes. Working with their own archives and other people’s footage and media artifacts and fostering a peculiar symbiosis of various formats (archival film, analog and digital video, CGI), they create singular film objects characterized by an intensity that is almost alchemical, mystical in quality. Theirs is a practice that occurs within a condition of statelessness, separate from community, identification and known contexts.
CREDITS
Sid Iandovka, Anya Tsyrlina
