vladimir mogilevskiy

Presented "Old Video" is composed from materials for a non existing film shoted in Crimea at the beginning of the century. 
50 screenshots were printed in a high-temperature decal technique on the ceramic tiles. Bluish, faded colors is a nostalgia refer to old color TV or a tombstone print. Immaculate space of Transatlantique gallery reminds of drain swimming pool or morgue. The viewers are peeping into a supernatural wonderland, absolutely unreachable, as an afterlife. The subject of photography in this case is not a reality, but a screen and anonymous film imagery. 

In his essay for "Old video" Pavel Peppershtain, states that space and time in the film is a chronotope for a bliss. He is questioning: how and why are the territories of happiness appear are disappear? Can we find an answer in personal realms in one's consciousness? Can a single human being be ultimately happy in a territory of misery? As well as in a space of bliss another can feel ultimately unhappy? What fortunate circumstances are responsible for appearances of such realms? 
Pavel also suggests, that "Nostalgia and dreams, a way of Nabokov and Proust, and memories of how delightful is was to frisk in the shadow of young girls in flowers - is all we have left. But territories of happiness are not disappearing, they are migrating, look for them on another side of the Earth!"