Julia Sharkina
Birth of the Sacred Deer
2025, 5 min

A film and performance about an individual journey into the subconscious in an effort to merge with the essence of nature, revealing to the viewer paths of inner vision. An encounter with a totem animal becomes a moment of spiritual rebirth.

Performance Yulia Sharkina
Editing Alexander Kazansky Marina Abadzheva
Camera Victoria Ilyushkina Dmitry Kurakin Ekaterina Panshina
Quadcopter Sergey Dubrov
Music Manizha Gong Rimma Ozornina

Participants in the performance in Karelia
Ivan Smirnov Katarina Kano Mark Nikolaev Aiya, Iva, Alena, and Vilgeny Melnikov

participants of the performance in the Urals
somatic performativity
“Body of the Pack” author of the idea, artist, director
Irina Schastlivtseva-Drozdova

artists
Ivan Smirnov
Anton Shulgin
Alexander Tokarev

Team
Evgenia Ryzhenkova
Maxim Krutikhin
Diana Nachkebia
Ekaterina Panshina
Igor Sagachev
Ruslan Vasikhov
Eva Yedigareva
Alexey Lopatin
Semyon Reshetnikov
Yuri Ozornin
Bogdan Ozornin
Yaroslav Ozornin
Iva and Danila Shurovy
Marusya Kunilova
Alisa Romanova
Vorobyova Anfisa
David Sadilov
Makar Milyaev
Slava Vishnevsky
Taisiya Kupriyanova
Ilyina Lika
Beauty Caroline
Mark Zmanowski
Antonov David Antonovich
Koleda Ivan
Misha Shabalin
Ivan Manukhin
Sadkov Ivan Pavlovich
Ivan Belkanov
Yuri Frolov
Danila Gaitinov
Igor Kvashnin
Yaroslav Kiselev
Gleb Mikryukov
Kozlova Sofia Dmitrievna
Lisa Bezgodova
Arapova Ksenia Borisovna
Pavlova Violetta
Polina Voloshuk
Daria Valisheva
Georgy Kyarimov
Lyubava Sycheva,
Artem Alekseevich Dyachuk
Nedorezov Kirill Dmitrievich
Kristina Zelinskaya
Voloshina Daria Alexandrovna
Polina Vishlenkova
Sergey Tikhanov
Guseva Maria Sergeevna
Daria Torlanova
Agnia Kuznetsov
Maria Smirnova
Shimanovich Varvara Igorevna


performance is created in the space
Residence Oflay Art, Karelia
Hello Dacha, Urals

In the opening and closing scenes of the film, a somatic performance
“The Deer Cycle / The Body of the Herd” takes place.

Concept author, artist, and director:
Irina Schastlivtseva-Drozdova

show
Cinema House, Yerevan, Armenia, October 17, 2025
Artists: Sergei Parajanov, Mathilde Reynaud, Amy Karle, Alessandro Zannier, Ethel Lilienfeld, Louis-Paul Caron, Julia Sharkina
Curated by Victoria Ilyushkina

  • Screen Video Art Festival "VIDEODROME"
Phygital Gallery OHRA, January 17-24, 2026, St. Petersburg
Narrative Video Art | Neurovideo | Abstract Video Art | Animation
Curator: Katarina Cano

  • Video Art Festival, Garage Gallery, December 25, 2025.
"Birth of the Sacred Deer" by Yulia Sharkina – video art installation and screening at the closing of the Vulnerable
Yulia Sharkina's installation transformed the gallery; Garage opened its iron doors wide for the first time, transforming it into a veritable womb. Visitors warmed themselves by a live fire and, through its flames, witnessed the repeated reenactment of the ritual of finding one's totem animal.
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