The Captain (Vladimir’s Voyage)
The film is about the deep relationship between a captain and the sea. At the same time, The Captain is a journey across continents and eras, across political systems and ideologies, and across reality and the world of the undead. It is a filmic portrait of the life and career of former Soviet Union captain Vladimir Kogan, who sailed the world on large merchant ships, and after 1989, found himself drifting to Brighton Beach, also known as “Little Russia”, a district of New York in Southern Brooklyn, known for its large number of Russian-speaking immigrants. In parallel, the film revisits and weaves in the famous “Kitchen Debate,” where the Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev and the then-United States Vice President Richard Nixon held an impromptu debate on the pros and cons of communism versus capitalism before live TV cameras in 1959.
Isa Rosenberger (AT)
Isa Rosenberger lives and works as a visual artist in Vienna, Austria.
Her installations focus on alternative readings of history (and the present), uncovering silent, suppressed, lost, or forgotten narratives. In her projects, Rosenberger—often from an intersectional feminist perspective—reflects on personal stories and discourses that migrate across considerable geographical distances and spans of time. In her practice, the documentary form undergoes multi-perspectival consolidation through a combination of archival material, mise-en-scène, performative (re)enactment, and dialogical formatting in the sense of oral history.
Her artistic and artistic-research projects have been shown in numerous exhibitions.
Solo exhibitions (selection): Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau, Kunsthaus Graz (2023); Camera Austria, Graz (2020); Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna (2019); Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles (2014); Grazer Kunstverein (2011); Edith-Russ-Haus für Medienkunst, Oldenburg (2009); Secession Vienna (2008).
Group exhibitions (selection): Dom Museum Vienna (2025); Salzburg Festival (2020); Kunsthalle Exnergasse (2019); Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb (2018); Belvedere 21, Vienna; Kunsthaus Graz (2017); Bergen Assembly; Museum der Moderne Salzburg; VOX centre de l’image contemporaine, Montreal; <rotor> association for contemporary art, Graz (2016); 5th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art (2013).
Isa Rosenberger teaches as a Senior Lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in the Department of Art and Education.
