Russia from within today is a fragile woman, constantly in danger of change. She is protected by a man: calm, controlling, mired in nostalgia for the past, resorting to “necessary cruelty” in the name of love, which they both sincerely share.

The main character of “7 Dreams to My Mother, ” the film’s director, Russian artist in exile Marina Noskova, also longs for the past: for safety and a sense of home, for a childhood when everything was clear, and the TV was a third parent, soothing and protecting from any nightmare, always telling the truth.

Noskova’s film is an attempt to understand the events in her country, Russia. She takes up the camera and, through the language of cinema and family archives, tries to find a way out of the swamp of nostalgia. She engages in a dialogue with her mother, trying to rediscover her homeland in a reality where the homeland stifles her and betrays all moral and ethical values.

“7 Dreams to My Mother” traces the path of disillusionment with propaganda through the illusory language of audiovisual imagery, which propaganda often represents.

The film is made using the split-screen method and was first presented in the form of a two-screen installation at the Amelie Cinema as part of the winter gallery program of the Narva Art Residency in 2024: www.nart.ee/en/exhibitions/marina-noskovas-exhibition-7-dreams-to-my-mother/

Producer and curator: Anita Kodanik

Composer: Astra Irene Susi

Sound: Vincent Roy

Graphic design: Aaro Veiderpass

The project is sponsored by the Estonian Cultural Foundation