Evgeny Granilshchikov
Panorama is a 15-minute documentation of a fragment of reality. Such recordings of the everyday situations belong to the genre, defined by Granilshchikov as “video wallpapers”. We see an urban landscape filmed in the twilight on the outskirts of Moscow: at the intersection vehicles and people are circulating, traffic lights are constantly flashing, and planes are passing in the evening sky. As we peer, more details catch our eyes, including a bright signboard in the background that reads ‘Миллион мелочей’ (EN: A Million Little Things). Indeed, it is the little things, as little as insects swarming around a lawn in the very foreground, that shatter a seemingly static character of ‘Panorama’. The ordinary movements thus create a peculiar pattern on this black and white video ‘wallpaper’.