Kuc, Kamila (2016) Batum. [Art/Design Item]
Type of Research: | Art/Design Item | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Creators: | Kuc, Kamila | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Description: | Batum takes as its starting point my experience of near drowning in the Black Sea of Batumi, Georgia. As such, the film is induced with a desire for an auto-ethnographical self-interrogation. Images that feature in the film are a constellation of personal and prosthetic memories, acquired through historical and cultural knowledge as exemplified by the poems of Osip Mandelstam and Joseph Stalin, among other cultural tropes. While making Batum I was set to explore a certain displacement of identity that emerges when we encounter past experiences. I sought to experience how memories become fiction once recorded and how in this process of recording, the camera itself holds a mysterious agency. The film also investigates how the complex relationship between personal and collective memories often subverts the social and political identity constructions. I am, above all, always interested in ways in which film, as one of the technologies of memory, can be seen as an innovative creator of memories themselves. Direction/Editing: Kamila Kuc |
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Keywords/subjects not otherwise listed: | Georgia, Communism, Stalin, film, memory, trauma, water | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Your affiliations with UAL: | Colleges > London College of Communication | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date: | April 2016 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Related Websites: | https://www.kamilakuc.com/batum, https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/20037/ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Material/Media: | Super8 transferred to HD | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Measurements or Duration of item: | 8 mins15 secs | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date Deposited: | 04 May 2023 11:14 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last Modified: | 04 May 2023 11:14 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Item ID: | 20040 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
URI: | https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/20040 |
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