PHOENIX KATJA
12 min.
2023
color and b&w
language: Russian, w/English st
format: 16:9, HD
location: Narva, Estonia
music: Lucy Railton
camera and montage: Eléonore de Montesquiou
link (please ask for password: nagrane@gmail.com)
“I am a phoenix bird. It's hard for me take off and fall ”writes Katja. A kindergarten teacher in Narva, on the Estonian border with Russia, Katja was born in 1992 in a Russian speaking environment. Today she is trapped between languages that reflect oppositions about war and freedom.