Bobok

Video by Alexandra Karelina and Ivan Yakushev refers to Dostoevskys deep interest in borderline statesprimarily death but also lethargy In Bobok the narrator out of boredom goes to a funeral of a distant relative Later taking thought he lies down on a tombstone and begins to hear the dead who continue to talk to each other as if by inertia The authors of the film translate imagery and tone of this story into a ritual action Abstract space of fabrics industrial materials and human body transforms and disintegrates blurring the line between living and inanimate