Evgeny Granilshchikov is an artist and a director whose work is at the intersection of cinematography, video art, and poetic expression. His media is himself. His body, voice, reflections, and intonations become both a material and a tool. He works with the vibrations of quotidian: the inner state change, the weather, mood, residency, age, poetical position, relationships, and identity.
His works are neither an artist's biography nor historical documentation. These works are about him, about Evgeny Granilschikov. He gets naked, turns himself inside out, walks on broken glass, opens up deep and personal, and then he shows it to the audience: very timidly, with caution, tentatively, looking around. In the search for something important, deep, and valuable, he finds it in himself. He is luckier than many: he has something to discover.
The last three years, like many other Russian artists, Evgeny spent in emigration. Here, he made a movie about it, "The Artist’s film".
This movie is based on personal voice messages that he sent to his friends during these years of emigration. With the long meditative frames as the background, his voice sounds: in these messages, he tells his friends where he is, how he is, and how things are for him. And most importantly, it seems he says, "I am here". But this "here" is still elusive for him, just as is his understanding of himself.
And still, it is not just about him, is it? It is so close and intimate, so much about all of us. It is a universal story about the fragility of "self" and about how the scarier part is not to lose your "self", but to catch it one day and realize it is somebody else’s.
November 16
Screening schedule
Morning program
🕚 11:00 – 13:00 — Video performances by Evgeny Granilshchikov
🕐 13:00 – 13:40 — Screening of The Artist’s Film
