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Filmed in Moscow twenty years after Akerman’s d’Est and over ten years ago, COLDER addresses the deep conundrums of memory, place, and time. A camera locks on to past glories, lingers, skittishly- its tonalities are sombre, nonmetaphoric, obscure and difficult. Iandovka and Tsyrlina’s cinematic approach to memory is closer, more intimate, and more unstable and problematic—more true—to notions of remembrance than other sorts of cinematic representations. An almost graspable (post)cinematic spatiality - a space both interior (subjective and singular) and exterior (collective, communal) overcomes us - complete with an apparitional trace that haunts memory and event alike. COLDER opens the unstable spaces of memory to confront the presence/non-presence of events and our complicated and difficult relations to our histories and our selves.

Sid Iandovka and Anya Tsyrlina (both born and bred in Novosibirsk, USSR) are visual artists often working together on film and video.