Gore ot uma di Olga Tobreluts: la metamorfosi di un classico

The contribution proposes an analysis of the transposition of a great classic Russian comedy on screen. We will consid- er one of the pioneering Russian videoart projects, the Gore ot uma (Woe from Wit) (1994) by Olga Tobreluts. The work presents it- self as the representation on the screen of the nineteenth century eponymous pièce by Alexandr Griboedov. But as the video be- gins it is suddenly clear it is not just merely a mise en scène. As Bruce Sterling pointed out it results to be more appropriate referring to it as an act of ‘mutation’. The work explores the possibilities of digital collage, mixing various references to different époques, uniting past and present.