Puma
2017
Super 8 Film, transferred to HD video
In collaboration with the organization Art as Foundation, based in Zurich, a group of invited artists investigated the effects and opportunities of art and creative expression in coping with trauma and the process of reconciliation. In 2014, after a stay in Tbilisi, Georgia we moved on to Sukhum/I the capital of Abkhazia. With the support of the Russian government, Abkhazia had declared independence from Georgia in 1993 provoking a brief war ending in a stalemate situation. Today, under Russian protection, Abkhazia is slowly recovering from this persistent, frozen conflict. The film Puma was shot in the garden of a decommissioned nuclear research center of the Soviet Union located in the outskirts of Sukhum/i. We enter a dream-like space of intense colors, a space that is composed through the montage of the film, which appears almost more physical than the represented landscape.