Olesia Gerasimenko

Illusion

2025, stop-motion animation, sound, 3:09

Illusion is a stop-motion animated video work about a person who flees their country at a sudden historical turning point, facing conscription and choosing flight over participation in war.

Crossing open, seemingly peaceful landscapes that conceal buried violence, the film asks what a place remembers and whether one can truly escape, or only move along paths laid down by others.

Made from the artist’s analogue/digital photo archive, it links past traces to present-day decisions.

Selected: Go Short – International Short Film Festival Nijmegen, Dutch competition, Go Ahead

Exhibited: “This Does Nothing to Me” — group exhibition,
Cosmos152, Amsterdam, NL, 2025

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