Фильм для воображаемой музыки / Film for imaginary music (2014) Михаил и Наталья Басовы / Mikhail & Natalia Basovs

Video installation by Mikhail & Natalia Basovs WRO media art biennale (Poland) 2015, Kasseler Dokfest (Germany) 2015, 28e Festival Les Instants Vidéo (France) 2015, Japan Media Arts Festival 2015 FAÇADE VIDEO FESTIVAL (Bulgary) 2015 Japan Media Arts Festival Kyoto Exhibition “Ghost” 2018 The vinyl disc is a nostalgic image, one of those phantoms of the past that constantly looks for a way to return to our consciousness, which is directed primarily to the present, to the new. In FILM FOR IMAGINARY MUSIC an old vinyl disc rolls uninterruptedly along a seashore without any visible external force, overcoming obstacles like a living being. A fragile object, which we are so afraid to drop on the floor, here by the sea, on sand, amidst rocks, shows incredible qualities as if it has just been waiting for a convenient moment. Who would have thought that, as soon as it finds itself on a seashore, in a dangerous and alien environment, such a metamorphosis could happen? The m