RAPTURE I - VISIT
2025 / 18 MIN
VIDEO, 4K, STEREO, COLOUR 16:9 (1.78:1), 24 fps
Russian
Production:
International Co-production: Le Fresnoy - Studio national des arts contemporains,
in co-production with FORTIS FEM FILM (FR Majority, DE Minority)
Summary:
RAPTURE I - VISIT piece follows Ukrainian Vogue dancer Marko as he emotionally confronts his abandoned and inaccessible apartment in Donbas, Ukraine, a region affected by ten years of war. The apartment is recreated using a 3D scan of original photographs, offering a digital reconquest of the space as Marko visits it through VR for the first time since 2018.
RAPTURE I is part of the two-channel installation RAPTURE, presented as a diptych and consisting of two distinct parts: RAPTURE I - VISIT and RAPTURE II - PORTAL. Each part can stand alone as an independent work or be viewed together as a complementary diptych, where one part mirrors the other.
WORLD PREMIERE
● 75th Berlinale Forum Expanded, Berlin, DE
FESTIVALS
● 75th Berlinale Forum Expanded, Berlin, DE
● 28th Traverse Video Festival, Toulouse, FR
● 38th European Media Art Festival (EMAF), Osnabrück, DE
● 8th INTERSECCIÓN International Film Festival, A Coruña, ES
● 38th Les Instants Vidéo Festival, Marseille, FR
● 21st kurz.film.spiele, Konstanz, DE
● 24th Festival Film Dokumenter, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
● 9th Beijing International Short Film Festival (BISFF), Beijing, China
● 29th Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Paris, FR
● 2nd Fukuoka International Film Festival, Fukuoka, JP
● 39th Stuttgarter Filmwinter – Festival for Expanded Media, Stuttgart, DE
● 19th LICHTER Filmfest Frankfurt International, Frankfurt, DE
● 5th SINGLE FRAME, Durham, NC, USA
● 10th Festival ECRÃ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
● 2nd What the Doc! International Documentary Film Festival, Bangkok, Thailand
● 7th Mimesis Documentary Festival, Boulder, Colorado, USA
● 8th ZED Festival Internazionale Videodanza, Bologna, Italy
● 36th FilmFestival Cottbus, Cottbus, DE
AWARDS
● 2026 International Expanded Media Award – Special Mention at 39th Stuttgarter Filmwinter
● 2026 Lichter Art Award Nomination at 16th LICHTER Filmfest
● 2026 Best in Documentary Arts Jury Award at 7th Mimesis Expanded Documentary Arts
MUSEUMS
● Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, June 2024
● HMKV – Video of the Month, August 2025
