Oleksander Hoisan
One-man-band artist Oleksandr Hoisan (b. 2001), originally from Ivano-Frankivsk in western Ukraine, studies film in Kyiv; he deploys new technologies—specifically «open universe» video-games— for cinematic ends. His preferred location: cyberspace. Here he stages a masterful détournement on 2004 classic Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, minutely exploring a simulacrum-ersatz American city with quizzical, anthropological and decidedly European detachment. Snatches of everyday dialogue shade into surreal poetry as casual, quotidian violence calmly unfolds across phantom zones of eerily flat affect. (N.Y.)