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curated by
Nikita Diakur
double bill #27
Sound plays a structural role in both Anton Cla’s Cyclepaths and Dimitri Venkov’s The Hymns of Muscovy, functioning not as accompaniment but as an emotional backbone. Beneath the CGI world of the first lies a constant tremor of latent catastrophe: guns, drones, and lonesome landscapes form a sonic atmosphere that feels hauntingly familiar.
In both films, time is cyclical rather than progressive, and cities are reimagined as unstable, self-referential environments. They examine how systems outlive the individuals moving within them. In The Hymns of Muscovy, we take an uncanny car ride through a Moscow flipped on its head, watching architectural styles drift past while a distorted Soviet anthem, reminiscent of Aphex Twin, anchors the journey.
Where Cyclepaths foregrounds lived experience and vulnerability, Venkov finds beauty in disorienting monumentality. Both reveal continuity beneath apparent change, contrasting human fragility with ideological permanence.
- Availability worldwide
- Language no dialogue
yanco’s double-bill series excavates personal or national Belgian archives—such as CINEMATEK, argos, Centre Vidéo de Bruxelles. A guest curator puts a Belgian work into dialogue with another short film, either formally or thematically. Each double bill is presented with a curatorial note and further contextualised by essays, articles, or interviews.