NUMBNESS
film by Andrey Silvestrov
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It's a war movie that doesn't have a frame of war in it, but it's in every frame
It's a war movie that doesn't have a frame of war in it, but it's in every frame
MUSIC BY ANDREY GURYANOV
2025. 8 mm. 72 min.
It's a very personal diary of peacetime life during wartime. The camera captures us going somewhere all the time, drinking wine, smiling at each other, reading the news on our phones. And somewhere very close by, unknown bombs, bullets, knives are killing people. On the way we meet people whose voices are heard off-screen. Their speech prefills the mute to give a word to the pain
It's a very personal diary of peacetime life during wartime. The camera captures us going somewhere all the time, drinking wine, smiling at each other, reading the news on our phones. And somewhere very close by, unknown bombs, bullets, knives are killing people. On the way we meet people whose voices are heard off-screen. Their speech prefills the mute to give a word to the pain
When numbness comes, the light is what remains
Andrey Silvestrov
Andrey Silvestrov
Movie and theatre director, artist and producer.
His works in cinema as director and producer include Volga-Volga (2006), Kandinsky Award for the Best Media Project of the Year; Brain (2010), the Best Experimental Film Award of the Syracuse International Film Festival in New York; Birmingham Ornament (2011), Discovery Award of the Horizons Programme at The Venice International Film Festival; Birmingham Ornament-2 (2013), Special Prize of the Rome Film Festival; Russia As a Phantazma (2016), a collective work of the participants of the KanskFilm Festival, Top Prize of Kinishock Festival; Ice Hole (2017), premiered at Kinotavr Film Festival. Imprint in motion (2021) is a cross-media project fusing the fine arts, contemporary dance, music and film-making. Up and Down (2023)
Produced the following movies: For Marx… (2012), Elixir (2015), No Place For Fools and Monkey, Ostrich and Grave (2017) and others. Special and retrospective screenings of Andrey Silvestrov's films took place at TATE Modern (London, UK), Ludwig Museum (Cologne, Germany), Institute of Contemporary Arts (London, UK), Pompidou Centre (Paris, France).
Theatre works include: Ice Hole at Meyerkhold Center (2016), Crime and Punishment (2017) and The Life and Strange Adventures of Solomon Mimon (2021) at Stanislavsky Electrotheatre, Sipurim-Shpil at Teatr.doc (2019) and others.
In 2008-2016,2020,2021 – director of the annual Innovation Awards in the sphere of contemporary art.
As a director and artist participated in “Phantomn- Knight” Exhibition Museum “Tsaritsyno” (2017), “Poetry and Performance” Exhibition, New Synagogue Zilina, Slovakia (2017), “Poetry and Performance” Exhibition, Sheddhalle, Zurich, Switzerland (2018), “Space hypnosis. Imaginary architecture” Exhibition Museum “Tsaritsyno” (2018), Multi-media Installation for permanent exhibition Museum “Tsaritsyno” (2019), Installation “Clay” for Ceramics Exhibition Museum “Tsaritsyno” (2021)
World Language Exhibition (video installation) at the Pushkin State Museum of Arts
Also as an artist took part in Biennales of Contemporary Art in Bergen, Kiev, Odessa, Istanbul and other exhibitions.
Music by Andrey Guryanov
Editing by Mikhail Bodukhin
Camera Andrey Silvestrov. Peter Silvestrov
Staring Anastasia Kuvykina
Andrey Guryanov
Andrey Guryanov
Sound artist with free improvisation, independent cinema, and experimental electronic music background. He uses his self-developed software to create versatile yet precise and delicate sound spaces; be
it a film soundtrack or an improvised electroacoustic set, the core of his music is sonic ideas exploring the infinite possibilities of electronic music aesthetics.
His live sets focus on feedback-based self-balancing sonic systems. The sound correlations these systems create are similar in the core of their principles to natural
economic or social models. Dense and highly detailed textures explore borders of stability, from bliss to blast. He uses acoustic, digital, and analog instruments to create a sound environment based on the sonic features of the space in real time.
Films and Video (selected) please check IMDB link for more
2023 «When We Return» (Sound), documentary, dir. Vladimir Nepevny
2023 (post-production) «The Fence» (Music - with Darya Zvezdina), dir. Dmitry Davydov
2022 «Sventura» (Sound edit), dir. Serena Nono
2022 «Songs Of Summer» (Music - with Darya Zvezdina/Re-recording mixer), dir. Dmitry Davydov
2022 «Illegal Immigrant» (Music - with Darya Zvezdina), dir. Dmitry Davydov
2021 «Prison Alphabet Series» (Music - as ‘logs’), by Current Time Channel, dir. Andrey Silvestrov
2020 «Black Snow (Khara Khaar)» (Music), dir. Stepan Burnashev
2018 «Toyon Kyyl» (Music/Re-recording mixer), dir. Eduard Novikov
2016 «Icehole» (Sound/Music), with Anton Kuryshev, Russia, dir. Andrey Silvestrov
2015 «Elixir» (Sound/Music), with Anton Kuryshev, Russia, dir. Daniil Zinchenko
Theatrical and Music Works (selected)
2023 «Anthems», Andrey Guryanov, released on Abstand
https://andreyguryanov.bandcamp.com/album/anthems
2022 «Lichna Nega», Drojji, released on Prepaid Recordings
https://prepaidrecords.bandcamp.com/album/lichna-nega
2022 «Live at ‘Угол’», KGXXX https://band.link/7tBVI
2021 «Chores», Drojji, released on Fort Evil Fruit
https://fortevilfruit.bandcamp.com/album/chores
2021 «Eight», Logs, released on End Of Story
https://logsmusic.bandcamp.com/album/eight2019 «Future Sound of Russia/ Mighty Minority» Drojji, released on Kota Records
https://kotaerecords.com/artists/drojji
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