Teleportation (2021)

Teleportation

2:00 | UK | 2021 | experimental

Artist’s short film exploring the anxious state of insomnia, based on the poetic text ‘On Sovetskya Street’ (Veronika Peat, 2021) about two sisters who teleport to Sovetskay Street to get rid of their pain. The work combines extracts from early Soviet films with diaristic footage, filmed in collaboration with artist Julia Soboleva.

Credits:
Director: Veronika Peat
Camera: Julia Soboleva, Veronika Peat
Editing: Veronika Peat

Includes extracts from:

‘Space Travel’, 1936 , dir. Vasiliy Zhuravlev,
‘Mobius Strip’, 1988, dir. Leonid Partidul

Screenings:
Video Poetry screening, Sevkabel Port, St Petersburg, 2023

Video Poetry screening, New Holland, St Petersburg, 2023

’This is the End of the World, My Love’, Digswell Arts Gallery, Letchworth, 2021