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“ Pitter-Patter ”
experimental

/30.00/HDV/Ch1Ch2/Serbia-Russia/
script:G.Myznikova,S.Provorov/
directors:Galina Myznikova & Sergey Provorov/
camera:Branko Sujic/
cast:Ana Bastac,Dubravka Subotic,Lidija Antonovic,
Predrag Radovancevic,Branislav Jeremic, Emilija Kavic,
Aleksandra Sekulic,Isidora Ilic, Bojan Radanov/
edit:S.Provorov/
support:Academic Film Center of the “Students’ City” Cultural Center,
Belgrade,Serbia/
production:Provmyza2009/

The plot of the video is based on the famous photograph by the well-known English photographer Henry Peach Robinson who created his works in the middle of the nineteenth century. The action is centered around the sick girl lying in bed and the crowd of people who have come to bid farewell to the dying girl.
The sunlight and wind with their metaphysical qualities, which keep appearing in the room throughout the plot, make it possible to perceive the video work through sensory, existential and poetical associations.The end is not far off. But the living process does not come to an end. It takes the shape of water which slowly fills the bed and, in a way, continues the sentimental and lyrical plot, running pitter-patter.
In yet another of their artistic studies the artists touch upon the very nature of the mechanism of communication, expressed through the original visual aspect, contact performance and an affective model of communication. Their creative expression touches upon such a vital problem of Contemporary Art as the loss of the lyricism
and the poetics of artistic form, more and more often they focus the attention
on the human as an object, requiring universal empathy and contemplation.

 

“ Fugue ”
experimental

/19.05/HDV/Ch1Ch2/Russia/
script:G.Myznikova,S.Provorov/
directors:Galina Myznikova & Sergey Provorov/
camera:V.Skuchayev/
cast:A.Silichuk,P.Kotov,P.Sinchenko and others/
edit:S.Provorov/
support:PRO ARTE/
production:Provmyza2007/
Award:
- Best Experimental Film -
Chilean International Short Film Festival /Santiago, Chile/;
- Special Prize of Jury -
The Open Film Festival of CIS countries, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia
/Anapa, Russia/;
- Special Prize of Student Jury -
“Brno Sixteen” International competitive festival of short fiction films
/Brno, Czech Republic/
Nomination:
Nominee of National Premium of Contemporary Art “Innovation” /Moscow, Russia/;
Nominee of National Premium of Contemporary Art “Kandinsky Award” /Moscow, Russia/

BRIEF SYNOPSIS:
The metaphysical story, which has happened at a concert, forms an outline of the film. The young people who have come to the early music concert instead of taking pleasure from instrument fine sounding, have to struggle with a wind forced by the organ into the music hall. The air streams subjected to musical impulses, run into a listener in spite of his will. Voices are not audible, but they sometimes break through noise of the wind and music. Force of an air influence gives compound psychophysical experiences. Something tries to establish a certain transcendental dialogue, which sets in for a moment, but then disappears… At one time the wind accompanied by low monotonous organ noise, brings motionless sitting people to certain unconsciousness, to mad activity: fight is started at the concert. The authors into a space of compelled contact locate characters of the "Fugue" and they must participate in individual and collective events, experience art by their own bodies. The constant provocative authors' position induces to remind spectators that the most harmless subjects and phenomena conceal unexpected perils.

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“ The Slippery mountain ”
experimental

/06.06/DV CAM/Ch1Ch2/Russia/
script:G.Myznikova,S.Provorov/
directors:Galina Myznikova & Sergey Provorov/
camera:S.Gadeev/
cast:Nikolay Sosnov,Valery Azonov,Evgeny Losev,
Maksim Zimorodov,Sergey Popkov,Alexsander Vesiolkin,
Alexsey Sviblov,Dmitry Kubasov,Konstantin Lebechev,Vladimir Lukov/
edit:S.Provorov/
support:NCCA RF/
production:Provmyza2006/
The project is finalist for the All-Russian competition Arsenale 2004
Award:
- Gran Premio for the Best Competing Film -
Assolo International Art Film Festival /Assolo(Trevisto),Italy/;
Prize of Croatian Film Critics
“25 FPS” International Short Experimental Film and Video Festival /Zagreb, Croatia/;
Prix “Neuroestetica“ for best video art
“Imaginaria” International Film Festival /Conversano, Italy/;
- Prize of Jury -
“Alternative Film/Video” International Film and Video Festival /Belgrade, Serbia/;
- Second Prize -
30th Moscow International Film Festival, "Media Forum" /Moscow, Russia/;
- Honorable Mention -
“Brno Sixteen” 47th International competitive festival of short fiction films
/Brno, Czech Republic/;
- Special Mention - Premio Aprile -
Milano International Film Festival /Milano, Italy/;
- Special Mention of Jury -
”Unimovie” International video and short film festival /Pescara, Italy/

BRIEF SYNOPSIS:
The youth of the modern society are geographically remote from the military operations that take place on the world's periphery. But they are trying to simulate such psychologically extreme situations. In film a group of extremity-minded people are explicitly imitating a collective execution by a firing squad in a mountain.
The sight of the extreme performance will remind a curious spectator of the horror of the formerly endured nightmare, in which the spectator had to climb up and roll down a steep slope, as well as of the punishment of mythic Sisyphus. The modern extreme games of youth are the very potentially useful work the outputs of which are useless in the framework of the existing society, and the work itself is endless.
But as Camus believed, a struggle to reach the top is sufficient to fill
one heart with hope.

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“ Three Sisters ”
experimental

/04.40/DV CAM/Ch1Ch2/Russia/
script:G.Myznikova,S.Provorov/
directors:Galina Myznikova & Sergey Provorov/
camera:V.Skuchayev/
cast:S.Polovinkina, Y.Polikina, E.Savchenko/
edit:S.Provorov/
support:NCCA RF/
production:Provmyza2006/
Award:
- Best Videoarte Film -
“Imaginaria” International film festival /Conversano, Italy/;
- Honorable mention -
“Brno Sixteen” International competitive festival of short fiction films
/Brno, Czech Republic/;
Nominee of National Premium of Contemporary Art “Kandinsky” /Moscow, Russia/

BRIEF SYNOPSIS:
Similarly to three sisters from Chekhov's play, children face to a choice. They are given right to play degree of their decision importance, fraught with serious consequences. It is a certain theatrical performance for children, an aspect of competitive spirit and, at last, an element of entertainment. But children's imagination is those that their behaviour actually balances on the verge of "game-life". It becomes more similar to performance. The presented artistic interpretation of Chekhov's play is contained in performance behavioural strategy. Children play performance, which is similar to theatrical game and on the contrary.

 

“ Wet table ”
experimental

/01.15/Betacam SP/Ch1 Ch2/Russia/
script:G.Myznikova,S.Provorov/
directors:Galina Myznikova & Sergey Provorov/
camera and light:V.Skuchayev/
edit:D.Maksimenko/
production:Provmyza1997(reconstruction 2005)

BRIEF SYNOPSIS:
Dark room. On a table there is a decanter with water.
Unexpectedly the decanter falls. There can be it the Flood.
AUTHOR'S STATEMENT:
There is a borderline between Reality and Non-Reality,
the Material and Non-Material and many other philosophical notions.
Water is a physical state which is able to blur' the clarity
and sharpness of any separating line. A stream of water
in constant motion carries a hidden metaphor of flow and
is associated with a stream of consciousness and time.
Consciousness is like water: it changes together with
the surrounding world and time. The sensory images of objects,
the feelings and the ideas crowd' and overcrowd' the consciousness
and blur the borderline between the metaphysical and the physical.
An object affected by water loses and changes its original architectonics.
The shape becomes unstable and abstractly elusive to mind.
Halting time and motion with the help of media means (freeze frame)
gives a possibility to study the newly created object of water
and a thing and grasp it with one's consciousness.
This virtual time-halting is the intermediate stage between clarity
and vagueness of perception.

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“ The Girl - Helicopter ”
experimental

/01.00/DV CAM/Ch1 Ch2/Russia/
script:G.Myznikova,S.Provorov/
directors:Galina Myznikova & Sergey Provorov/
camera and light:V.Skuchayev/
edit:S.Provorov/
cast:N.Bezaeva/
support:NCCA RF/
production:Provmyza2004/

BRIEF SYNOPSIS:
The girl has long and beautiful hair. In order to dry it quicker
she turns her head from side to side. The moving of hair vertically
and horizontally looks like a helicopter.
AUTHOR'S STATEMENT:
The project models real events by modern media means.
It presents such an ordinary activity as drying hairs
with dryer as hyperrealism. The camera motion and quick turning
of her head from side to side gives us abstract and dynamic vision
what is happen. And it looks like a helicopter blade.
The metaphoric name "The girl - helicopter" shows a search
of modern visual associations and says that poetic metaphor now is
on the border line between technical and humanitarian ideas.
The author's poetic attitude to media technologies gives
specific sensitivity and makes narrative emotionally dense.

 

 

CRITIC'S STATEMENT:
"The Alternative Play Station" is a title ironically subversive
and at the same time positioning the idea of the work in the context
of the practice and theory of games which have been acquiring
special importance alongside the development of information technologies.
At present the idea of game has turned into a rational tool of structuring
and managing one's actions in pursuit of either educational,
entertaining, business or propagandistic goals. The potential and powers
of the media technologies give a possibility to create incredibly
sophisticated kinds of game that, on the one hand, simulate
the physical reality with an increasing accuracy and, on the other hand,
reincarnate the gamers in characters of artificial worlds
with increasingly deep emotion. This is the developmental logic
of the technology and simultaneously of the commercial product
of the computer game industry - the Play Station. However instead
of the latest-tech gadgets, thrilling special effect and
colorful visualized scenes in ProvMyza's video work we see children
rather bored than playing from the conventional point of view
about children's games. On screen they are left alone
with ordinary home furniture - chairs and a wardrobe.
They make subconscious, undirected, unmotivated, un-interpretive
movements using the furniture not according to its functions
or as imagination-transformed substitutes of other realities.
For the children the pieces of furniture are only obstacles
in the emptiness of the area assigned for the utmost chaos
of children's spontaneous games unburdened with rationality.
Free of pre-assigned scenarios, devoid of possibilities
to copy the incomprehensible reality of traditional social
practices, devoid of children's toys that imitate adults' toys,
left on their own and in front of the camera,
the children turn in neurotically disorderly bodies
that constitute their own existence which does not depend
on the rules of normal behavior. The spontaneous choreography
of their subconscious bodily improvisations is appropriately
and laconically captured by the camera which is watching
them impartially. The montage is like a half-dozing
observer's blinking. In "The Alternative Play Station"
the artists, in a way, bring the reverse negative idea of the
game to its logical maximum, depriving it of the purpose, shape,
structure deriving at the same time and capturing the performances
of naive movement unique in their suddenness and spontaneity.
/Tatiana Goryucheva, Arts Critic, Historian of Contemporary Media Arts
/Moscow, Amsterdam/.

 

“ Wet chicken ”
experimental

/04.30/DV CAM/Ch1 Ch2/Russia/
script:G.Myznikova,S.Provorov/
directors:Galina Myznikova & Sergey Provorov/
camera and light:V.Skuchayev/
edit:S.Provorov/
support:NCCA RF/
production:Provmyza2003/

AUTHOR'S STATEMENT:
We are concerned with the theme of violence
not the explicit bodily or disciplinary kind of violence,
but the kind of violence which imperceptibly penetrates
into the life of each of us and destroys our freedom.
The media environment around us harbors quite a few sources
of danger and compulsion, e. g. advertisements.
The advertisements intrude into our audiovisual space,
subjecting us imperiously to their rhythm, vocabulary,
to say nothing of imposing things to choose.
Our "soaked hen" is a (ironic) metaphor
of a weak-willed object of violence.
Soaking and drying the girl in front of the video camera
we deliberately achieved commercial attractiveness
and high image quality. There would be no difference
between this work and any to which the model girl was
exposed when the commercial was being shot.
The aesthetics of advertisements can swallow up everything,
even the statement about the advertisements' abuse.
It turns one into a weak-willed consumption object.

 

“ Falls and Rises ”
experimental

/06.20/DV/Ch1Ch2/Russia/
script:G.Myznikova,S.Provorov/
directors:Galina Myznikova & Sergey Provorov/
camera:S.Provorov/
cast:students/
edit:S.Provorov/
sound:S.Provorov/
support:De Balie-Centre for Culture and Politics,Amsterdam,The Netherlands/
production:Provmyza2002/

BRIEF SYNOPSIS:
The film in symbolical and at the same time arty effective and technically progressive form represents a psychological level of a social shock, captured people after improbable acts of terrorism which became tremendous events in history of media show. The panoramic realization of the performance creates a metaphoric picture of a terrorist act. The imagery consisted of some positions showing a group of people standing in a dune landscape, falling down, lying in the natural landscape and standing up in a continuous repetition. The reference to 9/11 is almost implicit, the images poetic, deliberately vague and set in a slow sideway motion as if they are moving in the wind in the dunes.

“ 20.21 ”
experimental

/15.05/Betacam SP/Ch1Ch2/Russia-Sweden-Germany/
produser:V.Tsendrovsky,I.Pavlov/
concept:I.Pavlov/
script:G.Myznikova,S.Provorov/
directors:G.Myznikova,S.Provorov/
camera:A.Skvortsov,S.Provorov/
cast:V.Demidov/
music:I.Pavlov/
edit:E.Yasakov,S.Provorov,S.Yeroschenko/
support:Raster noton/
production:Provmyza1999/

BRIEF SYNOPSIS:
A visitor enters a library as the loudspeakers information
on the library departments and the rules of their use.
The visitor begins his search of the catalogues.
The book he seeks arrives from the stacks soon after
and the visitor proceeds to the reading hall,
where he finds himself amongst other readers. Suddenly,
a book falls to the floor from one of the desks.
Damaged,the book is then sent to the restoration department.
Stylistically, "20.21" is an experimental video project
developing structuralism towards the absurd
the film consists of 30575 still frames.
It is based around a musical piece written
by the contemporary Sweden sound artist Ivan Pavlov,
working in the area of electronic minimalisme.

 

 

 

“ Ball, skate, racket, bicycle in aggressive attack ”
animation

/09.20/DV CAM/Ch1Ch2/Russia/
script:G.Myznikova,S.Provorov/
directors:G.Myznikova,S.Provorov/
camera and light:V.Skuchayev/
music:G.Katzer/
montage:E.Yasakov,S.Provorov/
support:NCCA RF N.Novgorod,MAK-Wien Gallery/
production:Provmyza2002/

BRIEF SYNOPSIS:
Ivan Billyaletdinov, a hunter,
goes for a hunt to a nearby pond.
Having submerged in the thick of the muddy
water he observes underwater urban scenery.
Searching for prey he runs into various
industrial objects which are the only shelter
from the hunter's harpoon for the underwater inhabitants.
Killing fish the hunter notices a dog
that is swimming just beneath the pond surface.
Not to fall prey to the hunter
the dog has to move strenuously its paws.

 

BRIEF SYNOPSIS:
A large harvest of apples.
People do not copy with their work.
Overripe apples fall down.
People put apples into crates.

 

 

 

BRIEF SYNOPSIS:
A feministic film touching upon the "Woman and Routine"
problem.Miss Ragozina develops neurosis through her
work about the house.This condition shows itself
through monotonous swinging from side to side.
The monotony of swinging is the principal
characteristicof the housework itself.
A detached view of the woman and her
subjective view interweave to the point
of merging.At the end of the film
Miss Ragozina has a fit of nerves.

 

 

BRIEF SYNOPSIS:
An endless motion of a line,
scratched on the surface of movie film
with different domestic objects
(needle, pin, pencil, ink refill),
creates an installation effect
of observing various line textures.