katya yakubov

2017, HD video, 33 min, color

Based on Russian fairy tales featuring the infamous Baba Yaga, The Watering Room stages a power-play between an old woman who lives in squalor, and a bureaucrat, there to question her about a piece of property she may own. This seemingly straightforward dynamic begins to break down with the continued re-telling of the same story—the specifics of an encounter the Surveyor had on his way to Yaga’s house. Mixing elements of horror, surrealism, and theater, the film questions why we take pleasure in the perverse, and how the boundaries of guilt can be actively re-written.

Official Selection: 

2019 Echo Park Film Center (LA, CA)

2019 Oaxaca Film Festival (Mexico)

2019 Bushwick Film Festival (NY)

2019 Philadelphia Unnamed Film Festival (PN)

2019 Jerome Indie Film and Music Festival (AZ)

2019 Lanett City Film Festival (AL)

2019 Indie Visions Film Festival (Iran)

2019 Long Story Shorts Film Festival (Romania)

2019 Boathouse Cinema (Portland, OR)

2019 aCinema Space (Milwaukee, WI)