Perestroika (2009) dir. Sarah Turner

An autobiographical documentary, a fiction that s also an essay and an extended poetic meditation on the ability of the image to represent experience. Sarah Turner s film is a ghost story that explores what we forget and how we remember. The stunning imagery comes solely from the window of the TransSiberian train, shot first in 19878 and then again in 20078. The reenactment of the journey is a memory work, a reenactment of the past in the present through the process of filming. But the return journey is haunted by the voices of two dead friends that dominate the soundscape of the archive footage. The film culminates at the haunting expanse of Lake Baikal, the deepest lake in the world.