# Futurostalgia

> Futurostalgia is an audiovisual collaboration between Vladislav OSSSO and the electronic music project C.T.G. — a film set in Zerkolye, a society where emotions are replicable and memory is curated. Winner of a Visual Excellence Award in the CapCut “What if” competition.

- Artist: Vladislav OSSSO (Vladislav Lobashev), Barcelona, Spain
- Year: 2025
- Category: Music Film
- Medium: Audiovisual collaboration
- Client: C.T.G.
- Music: C.T.G.
- Scope: Direction, visual narrative, AI film
- Page: https://ossso.art/work/futurostalgia/

*Nostalgia for a future that has not arrived, and perhaps never will.*

## Collaboration

This project was created as an audiovisual collaboration with the electronic music project C.T.G. We combined sound and image to convey the mood of “futurostalgia” — an emotional state at the intersection of dreams about the future and digital reality. Music and imagery evolve in sync, turning memories and emotions into programmable algorithms, and fantasies into a cinematic experience.

## Zerkolye

It is an essay on nostalgia for a future that has not yet arrived — and perhaps never will. In the world of Zerkolye, where emotions have long become replicable and memory is carefully curated, the poet Léviy Helo drifts through opulent simulations in search of something real. Here, balls are not for love but for spectacle. Tears are not reactions but decoration. Everything is beautiful — but too smooth. The film unfolds as a stream of consciousness inside a perfect society where reality has been replaced by an aestheticised “maybe”. It is neither dystopia nor utopia — it is a memory of a dream that never came true.

## Poem

I drink to those who cannot see us,
Beyond the dome, behind the gleam.
Each guest a ghost in velvet stasis,
Trapped within a crystal dream.

We drift through halls of endless evening,
Where eyes like airships softly sail.
No heartbeat stirs beneath the gleaming,
Just whisper codes and woven veils.

A smile is grafted, smooth and hollow,
A tear — an antique simulation.
I kissed a woman made of shadow,
Her taste: refined hallucination.

I once recalled a day of water,
A mirrored sea beneath my skin.
The sky was still, the hours wandered,
And nothing asked where I had been.

We are the echoes of desiring
That passed through lips now long decayed.
Our memories, like glass, are firing
In galleries of soft cascade.

— from the Memory Sphere of Poet 728, Léviy Helo

## Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpI4CxHcYls

## Exhibitions and awards

- 2026 — Visual Excellence Award — CapCut “What if” competition, Worldwide
- 2025 — AI Brunch with Synchro Station, Tears to Jupiter, Barcelona, Spain
- 2025 — DOM Art Residency — two years, Barcelona, Spain
- 2025 — Hailuo × Freepik competition, Los Angeles, USA

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Part of Work at https://ossso.art/ · Contact: ossso@ossso.art