What if Jim Jarmusch’s film «Coffee and Cigarettes» were transplanted into a modern digital environment? The characters from the homage sit at one table, yet speak as if they are messaging each other, and their physical presence directly confronts the logic of online communication.
As a visual reference for this work, I used the aforementioned film «Coffee and Cigarettes» by Jarmuj, and my conceptual foundation was inspired by Kirill Ocheretyan’s text, «The Destiny of Embodiment in the Digital Age.»
A single-channel installation exploring the conflict between digital and physical reality and the impossibility of fully migrating one medium into another.I selected three dialogues from a film and translated them into the format of a contemporary online conversation. Two people sit opposite each other at a table and engage in a dialogue out loud, yet they speak as if they are communicating via social media correspondence—complete with all its unspoken rules.The piece incorporates an intentional contradiction: the characters are physically present and could simply speak, but they continue to interact according to the conventions of online chatting. The elements that naturally exist in the digital environment become absurd when literally embodied in spoken dialogue.Through this, I aim to illustrate the divergence between physical and digital modes of communication and the fact that certain forms created for a screen lose their meaning when transplanted into physical space.
