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Gorodets: a Museum of Muted Talks

Gorodets: a Musuem of Muted Talks is an archeological inquiry into the disappearance of thousands of villages in the centuries-old backlands of Russia.

Niko Hafkenscheid & Valentina Stepanova - Gorodets 16:9

The project collects images and conversations in an attempt to re-construct or 're-invent' a reality no longer inhabited by humans, where the camera works as a lonely, posthumous eyewitness. 'Gorodets' means little town in Russian and represents countless unpeopled places that soon will be erased from the map. The installation presents a film as if it were a painting, but one in need for a gaze and an engagement of the spectator, who has to actively sculpt the film and put into motion the voices of the past and the muteness of the present.

Production: Niko Hafkenscheid & Valentina Stepanova — Co-production: A Kind of Space, workspacebrussels, IDFA Doclab Academy — With the support of: Vlaamse Gemeenschapscommissie

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