AREN’T YOU AFRAID TO SWING ON RUSSIAN SWINGS? extd.

A film about the unlearning of the socialist way of living by meeting new capitalist constraints. Using video footage of her grandfather‘s home- and travel video archive from the 1990s, Ida Kammerloch explores her family memories after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Ida Kammerloch (b. 1991 in Izhevsk, Russia) is a visual artist and filmmaker whose work explores the ideological, media, and economic structures that shape our perception of reality. Based in Vienna, she creates video installations and essayistic works that combine documentary research with parafictional strategies. Drawing on found footage, everyday objects, and archival material, she examines how bodies, images, and desires are encoded and circulated under late capitalism. Her practice is informed by critical media theory, artistic research, and visual methods of investigative storytelling.