German Festival Premiere

Building on the artists’ long-running joint practice,  I Remember (Depth of Flattened Cruelty), is a newly conceived digital animation. The work has grown out of a cannibalistic process whereby past collaborative work by the artists are folded into new iterations. It is an approach that smudges the edges between documentation of past work and a generative process of shared making. The video introduces volume and perspective into two-dimensional collages: a continuous folding of “worlds within worlds” and a woozy movement in and out of dream-like states and stark imagery. The soundtrack, developed with composer Max Bloching, draws on field recordings and musical fragments to both channel the imagery, and work against it.

Image Credit: Tolia Astakhishvili & James Richards, I Remember (Depth of Flattened Cruelty), 2023, (film still)

• Programm Programme: International Competition 7