Dina Karaman
Directing
Biography
Dina Karaman (b. 1986, Leningrad). Filmmaker, video artist, archive researcher and exhibition scenographer. She participated in film program of 17th Venice Architecture Biennale 2021; an international video exhibition 'the view from there', Sadie Coles HQ (London, 2021); VI, IV and II Moscow International Experimental Film Festival, XXIX Message to a Man Film Festival, V Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, XII and XIII Media Forum of Moscow International Film Festival, video art program of Zerkalo Tarkovsky Film Festival to name a few.
Known For
A family of four and their dog arrive at a seaside hotel in Kui Buri, Thailand. What appears to be an ordinary vacation turns into a series of interactions that betray an unspoken tension in their relationships. The next day, complexities unfold in a cave housing Buddha statues.
The Nature of Dogs
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Dominic Wants to Tell Stories
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Chrysanthemum Festival
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Brief History of Hugging
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Scirocco
The cassette with the materials of which the film was edited, was found in the archive of film documents. Judging by the nature of filming, it has been recorded by a cameraman in the 90-s for the documentary plot or story. Or probably it's just a video diary about a vacation, taken with professional skill. But in the end, it turned out that 20 years later the found panoramas of sea and mountain landscapes of Crimea inspired the director and the composer for the creation of video pieces for flute with the participation of one artist.
Republic
A cinematographic journey to that very unique time when many Russians got their first palmcorders along with their first opportunity to go on family vacation abroad. Roads, hotels, shops, water parks and cafes - everything was equally impressive and everything was saved on VHS tapes for home archives. At the same time, somewhere on the other side of the Earth the fishermen who go out to the northern seas for a long time, also take a video camera with them for the very first time.
What Sound Reminds You of Home
Under the forced isolation in 2020, Dina Karaman began to keep a video diary, filming from the window of her apartment in St. Petersburg. The deserted urban landscape opening up to the eyes, which seemed to her an eerie dream, pushed Dina to find out what other people dream about while going through the lockdown. Recordings of people recounting their dreams and audio notes contributed by strangers are woven in this piece into a motley web of fears, memories, and hopes.
Letters About the End of the World
This experimental work, created by a collective of 10 filmmakers, combines footage from the participants’ family video archives and a sonic journey through the streets of Moscow in August 1991. The events that brought about the end of the Soviet era mark the starting point for the unstable reality of the next decade, which the people of the new Russia documented with their home videocameras.
91
Newsreels were one of the most powerful tools of Soviet propaganda. They also make up a significant part of the state film archives. In the newsreels, the recent past presents itself as a monolith of silent images, firmly stitched together by the narrator's voice and soundtrack subtly playing the viewer's feelings. It is exactly this original sound that the artist suggests to detach from. Just two or three minutes long episodes retain the original montage, which was meant to follow the upbeat narration. Flickering images of the past, which perhaps can only become enchanting to us today by revealing their muteness.