A highlight of After the Afternoon is a film program featuring four works by filmmakers.
In the original version with English subtitles.
Macha Ovtchinnikova
Exquisite Mists, 2020
HD video, b/w and color, sound, 3 min 15 sec
In the hollow between two lakes and two countries, between two eras and two mountains, the fragments of a family history.
Image, sound, editing: Macha Ovtchinnikova
Music: Frédéric Alvarez
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Leonie Kellein
Brother, 2023
Full HD, slow motion, color, sound, 2 min loop
In two sequences running parallel, a little boy is shown in front of a bucolic countryside: Starting at different points of time, he picks a red flower, walks towards the camera, and leaves.
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Dana Iskakova
Whose Voice Is This?, 2024
HD video, 4:3, b/w and color, sound, 14 min
Commissioned by Arsenal – Institute for Film and Video Art as part of a Living Archive residency, supported by the Goethe-Institut Uzbekistan. Central Asian Research Collective DAVRA
This film traces the evolution of sound, speech, and music in Central Asian cinema from the 1960s to the 1990s. Through dubbed voices, shifting soundscapes, and soundtracks, it reveals how Soviet ideology gradually weakened and Perestroika’s freedoms emerged, reflecting broader transformations across the region.
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Nefeli Chrysa Avgeris
SEA FULL OF SONG, 2025
4K video, sound, 13 min 31 sec
A poetic journey through myth and memory, set on the haunting shores of the Sirens’ islands. A dreaming figure drifts between silence and sound, searching for echoes within herself- where memory becomes melody, and myth might turn into song.
In the original version with English subtitles.
Macha Ovtchinnikova
Exquisite Mists, 2020
HD video, b/w and color, sound, 3 min 15 sec
In the hollow between two lakes and two countries, between two eras and two mountains, the fragments of a family history.
Image, sound, editing: Macha Ovtchinnikova
Music: Frédéric Alvarez
—
Leonie Kellein
Brother, 2023
Full HD, slow motion, color, sound, 2 min loop
In two sequences running parallel, a little boy is shown in front of a bucolic countryside: Starting at different points of time, he picks a red flower, walks towards the camera, and leaves.
—
Dana Iskakova
Whose Voice Is This?, 2024
HD video, 4:3, b/w and color, sound, 14 min
Commissioned by Arsenal – Institute for Film and Video Art as part of a Living Archive residency, supported by the Goethe-Institut Uzbekistan. Central Asian Research Collective DAVRA
This film traces the evolution of sound, speech, and music in Central Asian cinema from the 1960s to the 1990s. Through dubbed voices, shifting soundscapes, and soundtracks, it reveals how Soviet ideology gradually weakened and Perestroika’s freedoms emerged, reflecting broader transformations across the region.
—
Nefeli Chrysa Avgeris
SEA FULL OF SONG, 2025
4K video, sound, 13 min 31 sec
A poetic journey through myth and memory, set on the haunting shores of the Sirens’ islands. A dreaming figure drifts between silence and sound, searching for echoes within herself- where memory becomes melody, and myth might turn into song.
