Government House

The film´s title designates a luxury housing block in Moscow, built around 1930 for Stalinist officials. This is something we cannot see. Not really. But somehow, we can, because we are being shown the interior and the roof of an empty-looking building: dark stairways, rooms, corridors and halls, along with glimpses of a metropolis at night in the background. Most of all, however, this film shows vibration: it is vibration. A phantom-like figure (in the end there will be two) moves through these spaces ditheringly, attached to bright filaments reminiscent of a gigantic web. Vibration pervades everything we are...

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Orig. Title
Haus der Regierung
Year
2018
Countries
Austria, Russia
Duration
11 min
Director
Herwig Weiser
Category
Experimental
Orig. Language
No Dialogue
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