Maria Pleshkova: Innerscapes
Limbo
Limbo (from Latin limbus (“border”), in Roman Catholic theology,
is the border place between heaven and hell.
© Maria Pleshkova, Limbo
Length: 15:37
2019
This film is an attempt to escape from the dictatorship of the daily routine and to go deep into the oneiric space. The inner world and the outer world are juxtaposed, and the inner world seems to be more real. The film appeals to the Unconscious, to myths and archetypes. Also, this film can be considered as an act of escapism.
There’s a mytheme in comparative mythology called ‘Katabasis’. It is a descent of some type, such as trip to the underworld. This film is a descent, too, in a certain sense. It is a metaphorical journey to artist’s own universe.
View Exhibition: Limbo
When I finished this film, I realized that I wanted to make a few screenshots and to show them as a separate body of work.
First of all, I’m a photographer – and only then a filmmaker. And I’m aware that probably my film looks more ‘photographic’ than ‘cinematographic’. The shots are long and static.
So, I made the screenshots. They are dark and grainy, some of them are blurry and indistinct. And this is exactly what I like about them: they are not perfect.
I’m tired of perfectness. In the modern world, everything tends to be perfect, high-quality, well-made, complete, ideal… But the ideal is not possible. And life is not perfect.