Special screening of a film about industrial music as a way to talk about death by Russian artist and filmmaker Daniil Zinchenko.
Tinnitus (from Latin tinnītus—a jingling, ringing) is the hearing of sound when no external sound is present. While often described as a ringing, it may also sound like a clicking, hiss or roaring.
The film is believed to be the first one dedicated to music as an instrument for the exploration of death. The trigger for the plot was a discussion between Yevgeny Voronovsky, composer, and Dmitriy Vasiliev, music enthusiast and journalist. They talked about musicians of the 1990s and 2000s who had worked with a theme of death and that many of them are now dead (suicide, drugs, and other mystical circumstances). Sound artists have been swallowed up by dangerous field of their studies. During the film, one of the characters dies in unclear circumstances. As the real death emerges from the conversation about it, the film starts to transform, growing in characters, stories, and contexts.
Daniil Zinchenko - (b. 1984, Tyumen, Western Siberia) is an artist and film director. He debuted in cinematography as an actor in Yevgeny Yufit’s films The Wooden Room (1995) and Silver Heads (1999). He later graduated from the Rodchenko Art School, Moscow. Zinchenko is a director of several feature films, including: 50 (together with Tikhon Pendyurin; 2018); Russia as A Dream (together with Andrey Silvestrov; 2016); and Elixir (2015). Participant of 16th Venice Architectural Biennale (Russian Pavilion; 2018); goEast Festival, Wiesbaden (2017); 66th Berlin International Film Festival (2016); and Moscow International Film Festival (2012, 2014). In 2019 he received Spirit of Fire Film Festival Award in the category Short Film. Lives and works in Moscow.
Tinnitus
Director Daniil Zinchenko
Russia, 2019. 90 min. 18+