Running Man by Stas Orlovski

Stas Orlovski’s Running Man transforms a guardhouse from a symbol of surveillance and oppression into a magic lantern where disparate histories merge, intermingle, and collide. Orlovski occupies the former East German guardhouse in the Wende Museum garden with three projected stop-motion animations that explore themes of loss, memory, and migration. Drawing on the structure’s Cold War past and its current proximity to Sony Pictures Studios, the work references Russian children’s books, Soviet-era animation, Malevich’s suprematism, Hans Richter’s experimental films, and Eadweard Muybridge’s early motion pictures.