Pole pole ndio mwendo

photo-video essay, work-in-progress

Found footage is a cinematic genre, often associated with horror, where the film or key parts of it are presented as raw, unedited recordings left behind—sometimes by missing or deceased characters. But in this project, found footage becomes something far more unsettling.

The discovery of long-forgotten archival recordings from the event held 35 years ago, when 2,300 women from 150 countries gathered under the slogan “Towards 2000 — Without Nuclear Weapons!”— forces the protagonist into an unexpected dialogue with a  memory itself. 

Through fragmented transmissions and disrupted monologues, the character struggles to articulate a peculiar emotion: nostalgia for peace that never arrived.  And in this way, found footage truly becomes horror — not in its usual form of supernatural fear, but as a chilling reminder that some stories are lost not because they were erased, but because the world chose not to listen.

authors: Yana Osman, Anton Khamchishkin, Zinaida Tuzova