Tomorrow Was War (2024)
Adamska Elizaveta Rakhilkina
(19 min) Tomorrow Was War is a story of a Russian trans man Shura who is slowly psychologically unravelling while stuck in an apartment in dystopian police state Russia on the New Year’s Eve.
About the Director
Adamska Elizaveta Rakhilkina’s visual work exists in the chasm between two empires — the United States and Russia, and their colonial histories. An alum of Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, and the University of Washington, Adamska works with film and photography. An award-winning film director (“Best Film Audience Award” from Reeling: Chicago International Film Festival) Adamska had their films shown internationally across North and South Americas, Europe, Asia and Africa. Their experimental documentary No Refunds in collaboration with a New York performer Mars has been screened locally in Seattle at Soil Art Gallery, and Adamska’s dystopian short Tomorrow Was War was screened at the Henry Art Gallery. As a photographer Adamska has exhibited around the globe in Milan, Berlin, London and New York. Adamska’s work gallomps through eras and genres, but is always preoccupied with unpacking notions of eeriness and nostalgia while transforming flesh with moving image, creating worlds of unbridled desire and disrupting rigid structures of pharmacopornography and cis-heteropatriarchy. Their visuals hurt so bad, but feel so good. Present is pregnant with future. Home is where the haunt is.
