Viki Aleksandrovich
Germany | 2017 | 60 min
World premiere
Languages : Russian, German, English
Subtitles : English, French
A liquid expanse, opaque, placental. A face emerges from it, listens to the child who is counting out in Russian the numbers for a game of hide-and-seek, which finishes in a shutdown building whose ceiling is tattooed with a swastika. And the question arises: “Do you remember our creation?” Diana, the young woman who asked it, sets off in search of her triple origins, Ukrainian, German, and Jewish. After having signed a childish pact with her grandmother, which frees her from the power of women in exchange of “78 pieces of gold” (in chocolate), she leaves to find her father and brother. On the way, Diana stops over in a Kiev beset with nationalist and religious conflicts, with the war of men, a game in which “all mothers lose.” Her Oedipal route leads her to the ultimate frontier, the Biblical desert, in the company of nomads who get her to depend upon herself. With Kreatura, Viki Aleksandrovich weaves a disturbing documentary poem on the notion of identity, undecidable, its reality uncatchable and indefinitely reconfigurable in the fictional world of fantasies.
Emmanuel Chicon
