Screening in presence of the filmmaker: Sunday, January 11, 6 pm
Through aggressive mirroring, including glimmers from the Atacama desert to Zaporizhzhia, Riga, Šiauliai, Vilnius and Tallinn, Brilliance attempts to give a glimpse of the flickering hologram-shift from socialism to neoliberalism form the eyes of the generation born into the new freedom. What is the legacy of this shift, now that the kids who were the projection vessels of its’ aspirations, are living the inherent tensions between dreams and nostalgia?
Sille Kima (b. in Tallinn 1992) is an artist and a mover in body, space and sound. Rooted in the tactility of the sonic, their work often references the sensibility of embodied and oral practices from the places they attend to as home. Using her vocals and dramaturgy as the main tools, their practice explores the crooked grammars of affection, memory interfacing, aggressive mirroring and incantations of belonging. Recently, their work has been dealing with light – a holder of both enormous violence and nourishing warmth. Currently she is melting into music and working on their album.