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New Year’s Eve at the Mariinsky

A truly remarkable New Year’s Eve in St Petersburg’s fabled Mariinsky Theatre, with Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky (ex-Kirov) Ballet. It was at the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg that the ballet The Sleeping Beauty premiered in 1890, with a score by Tchaikovsky and choreography by Marius Petipa. This New Year’s Eve programme revolves around Act III, in which Princess Aurora is brought out of her long sleep by the prince of her dreams and marries him. In addition, prima ballerina Uliana Lopatkina dances Camille Saint-Saëns’ famous Dying Swan, first performed by Anna Pavlova. In conclusion the soloists of the Mariinsky Theatre’s Young Singers’ Academy perform the finale of Rossini’s Journey to Rheims in a joyous celebration of the coming of the New Year.

New Year’s Eve at the Mariinsky

NR 2006
Мастерская художественного свиста

Conditional 60s in a conditional country in a constructed fairy-tale world. In the old house on different floors live: Officer, Journalist and Composer. Their life is full of lies to each other and to ourselves. They have a neighbor - an unusual boy nicknamed "Whistler." He perceives the world through music and expresses his attitude towards a life of wondrous beauty by whistling. The only thing he wants is to make friends. But the neighbors do not notice the boy and his music. With this inattention, they build their fate, not suspecting what a “boomerang” it could return ...

Мастерская художественного свиста

NR N/A
The Tower: A Songspiel

Filmed in April 2010, the film is based on real documents of Russian social and political life and on an analysis of the conflict that has developed around the planned Okhta Center development in Petersburg, where the Gazprom corporation intends to house the headquarters of its locally-based subsidiaries in a 403-meter-high skyscraper. The proposed skyscraper has provoked one of the fiercest confrontations between the authorities and society in recent Russian political history. Despite resistance on the part of various groups who believe that construction of the building would have a catastrophic impact on the appearance of the city, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Gazprom has so far managed to secure all the necessary permissions and has practically begun the first phase of construction.

The Tower: A Songspiel

NR 2013
Old Records

Many older people have nostalgia for the hits of their youth. Knowing this, we decided to create a musical film where popular melodies of 30-40 years were played, such as "Splash of Champagne", "Carioca", "Tiko-tiko", "Joseph", "No need to be sad", etc. The film is structured as a conversation between a pop singer (Vera Beradze) and a collector of old records (Boris Shcherbakov). After the selected record is put on the gramophone and a familiar melody sounds, the old collector suddenly appears in the frame with the singer and transforms into a brave Mexican, then a playboy, or a guy from the outskirts of Moscow, depending on the song being played.

Old Records

NR 1994
Landscapes of Rivers (And Other Ways to Speak with Yourself)

The characters of this film are outsider musicians from Moscow, St. Petersburg and Chelyabinsk, not losers, but people with their own position. In the lives of Anton (Mårble), Stas (DJ 1985) and mark (Mississippi Landscapes) there are performances at the Boiler Room and Present Perfect — and urban weekdays with "Pyaterochka" and canteens, strange parties, jams on the roof panels, escapes to the village. In the gap between them, there is a lot of talk about music, creativity, and what allows them to remain themselves and not look for ways into the mainstream.

Landscapes of Rivers (And Other Ways to Speak with Yourself)

9.0 2020