"Всё ещё впереди” \ “There Is Still More To Come” (a trailer)

“Всё ещё впереди” \ “There Is Still More To Come” by Masha Godovannaya, sound by Enrique Arriaga, 13:43, Mexico/Russia, 2024

“There Is Still More To Come” is a cinematic wandering through the streets of St. Petersburg on June 5th, 2022, a city, that is intimate and familiar to the filmmaker. The city lives the reality of a war that is "far away" but nevertheless haunts it and infiltrates the human relations of its dwellers. The bifurcated gaze created by the simultaneous use of two cameras (conventional digital and monochrome fuchsia) depicts a leaden feeling of the city caught in a state of animated suspension. The deserted streets, the withered urban infrastructure, the stone embankments, the pigeons in the parks, and the dandelions bursting through the pavements are captured by the fractured composition of the frame. Combined with the juxtaposition of color and light, they reinforce the sense of a disjointed reality, spiraling anxiety, premonition of horror, and impending uncanny. The film's soundscape, created from accidental field recordings of mundane conversations and interactions with authorities during the stroll, found-sound fragments (documents of the Russian-Ukrainian war from June 2022 to February 2024), and a sonic track specially composed by Mexican sound artist Enrique Arriaga, enhances a nightmarish state of premonition. Through an accentuated encounter of the visual and the sonic, the film-stroll becomes a direct speech of the narrator about what she distinctly heard and listened to in the reality of this walk - the unseen but unescapably sensed hauntings in the urban space.