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Black Balloons is a video work based on a short footage the artist did during one of the everyday peaceful, anti-government demonstration in summer 2013 in Sofia. On that particular day, someone of the protestors brought hundreds of black balloons spreading them among the people to blow them. Later, marching by the building of the Parliament, heavily fenced and blocked by the police forces, people start throwing their balloons in the senselessly guarded area. The important part of the work is the slowdown, affecting mainly the recorded noise, as policeman stay still anyway. No additional sound effects or engineering were applied to the sound, which somehow plays a major role in the work