Project name: Augmented Second
Medium: video
Trailer Duration: 7'39''
Year: 2020
Tags: #broken_communication #time_distortion #anxiety #fantasm #alienation
Credits: Ksenia Bashmakova, Daria Shalduga, Olga Orlovskaya, Sergey Andreev, Galina Selyutina, Apollinaria Cyrillec, Valentina Gogan, Anna Biruleva, Julia Tanelvitz, Roman Zhulanov, Igor Osipov, Fyodor Zakharov, Mikhail Vilchenko, Marina Nasekina, Alisa Ivanova, St. Petersburg State Institute of Cinema and Television, Daria Dementieva, Anya Zhukova, Lisa Kanatova



In classical music from Western culture, an augmented second is an interval that is created by widening a major second by a chromatic semitone. The name also indicates the changed, stretched time in which the protagonist falls. The extreme state of stress before a performance is superimposed on a constant anxiety, transforming voices in her head into real characters sitting in an empty concert hall. And the performance itself becomes a detective reenactment. The actors play out dialogues, the director directs the process, the ephemeral vision of the main character transforms into a distorted form of nightmare. A slight sense of alienation intensifies and leads to the ultimate act of violence.

If you want to watch Augmented Second, please contact me: kseny.bashmak@gmail.com