Colourization
2015

Installation. 11 Flags. Polyester silk, acrylic
100 x 150 cm (each)

Eleven red flags are installed on flagpoles located around the entire perimeter of the facade of the Circular Kinopanorama. A red flag appears on the mast of the battleship at the end of Sergei Eisenstein’s film Battleship Potemkin. To make the flag appear red on the ship’s mast in the black-and-white silent film, the editors had to colour in a large number of the film frames. The red flags on the facade of the Circular Kinopanorama have also been coloured manually in an expressive manner. The 11 repetitions of the flag’s colouring create a sensation of moving film frames. The eleven flag frames accord the old cinema a similarity to the celebrated battleship in the film, no longer sailing through the lines of enemy ships as in in Eisenstein’s film, but instead through time.

EXHIBITION “CINEMA OF REPEAT FILM” at Smena Contemporary Culture Center (Kazan), photo by Denis Volkov

Cinema of Repeat Film
VDNKh, Moscow, 22.09 – 01.11.2015
http://www.triumph-gallery.ru/en/events/cinema-repeat-film.html