Kahegha

video, 16:38 min, 2019

Kahegha is a mythical film investigation that blends in media archaeology, video game aesthetics and re-enactment based on real diaries of the artist's former room-mate.
What is the driving force behind the choices that create the body of theuvb so-called factual reality? If the narrator uses the framework of interchanging formal and speculative patterns it will generate a parity between narratives that are purely imaginative and those that seem real or are psychologically tangible.
In "Kahegha '' which is a borrowed term from Lovecraft's imaginary universe the plot revolves around a real event in 2013 when a Russian citizen Ekaterina Ustyuzhaninova was accused of killing a Libyan Army officer avenging the execution of Gaddafi. Ekaterina happened to be the artist's former eccentric room mate whose personal ontology based on knights crusades and computer gaming brought her to Libya. The further crafting of the narrative merges documentary with theatrical play and estranged gaming realm in which it is not that clear anymore if Gaddafi existed at all and who exactly killed him.