Siberian Children
2019
Siberian Children reflects on collective memory through deeply personal histories. The work focuses on six women who, as children, were deported to Siberia during the March 1949 mass deportations.
The women are filmed silently on a tram in Tallinn, their bodies swaying with its movement along predetermined tracks. This lack of control echoes the precarity of lives shaped by shifting political regimes and forces beyond individual agency.
The soundscape, created by the Estonian musical collective Eeter, is based on songs once sung in Siberia — voices of endurance carried across generations.
The women are filmed silently on a tram in Tallinn, their bodies swaying with its movement along predetermined tracks. This lack of control echoes the precarity of lives shaped by shifting political regimes and forces beyond individual agency.
The soundscape, created by the Estonian musical collective Eeter, is based on songs once sung in Siberia — voices of endurance carried across generations.
