In 2019, I had the opportunity to curate and produce the annual restore:

Digital Art exhibition in Moscow once again.

restore:, an Apple Premium Reseller in Russia, tasked me with conceptualizing their new "restore: Digital Art" festival. This culminated in a digital art exhibition held for a month and a half at Moscow's Winzavod art center from December 2019 to January 2020.

The exhibition was divided into two parts: Professional, showcasing self-produced artwork, and Amateur, where anyone could participate by submitting their work to an online competition. This year's focus was on film, exploring the theme "8 Seconds"—the limit of our ability to focus attention on a specific subject.

I developed a concept featuring three short films to be shown simultaneously on three large screens, accompanied by a single music track composed by contemporary Russian composer Kirill Richter. To engage the constantly distracted viewer, we designed the experience to require effort to follow a chosen story.

We collaborated with a large team of film professionals to produce the shorts at Alvar Aalto Library in Vyborg and  various locations in St. Petersburg.

Using the iPhone Pro Max for all shooting and filming, our goal was to offer a conceptual experience that combined the best in cinematography, photography, and design.

Three films were presented as a single looped three-screens installation on the topic of clip culture - inability to focus one's attention for longer than 8 seconds in a constant search for new impressions.

Observing three screens in a row, the viewer had to make an effort to follow each single plot, while being constantly distracted by a whirlwind of changing images.

SOTIRIA: A fugitive is trying to escape from his pursuers in a dark forest. They aim for the book in his hands, he aims to save the last printed publication on Earth.

MESHUGGAH: In a futuristic school kids are taught to write with the help of gadgets, any other writing tools are prohibited. One of the students breaks the order, what leads to the "fair" punishment. Could the teacher be mistaken, if a genius is hidden behind a deviation?

SELF: Being under an innovative "clip" hypnosis, a woman, while on a psychoanalyst's appointment, experiences the "free associations" method. Her daily evening run gets a new goal: to overtake, despite all obstacles, a mysterious stranger.

Filmed on iPhone 11 Pro with the Moment Anamorphic lens.