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Death. The End. The Beginning

Raushaniya Badretdinova grew up in the village. After milking, the cow loved to lie on the hayloft and draw. The parents didn’t take the child’s passion for frivolity, so no one supported Raushania’s desire to study for an artist. The girl had to escape. Raushaniya was married twice, suffered cancer, she was diagnosed with "infertility". The girl had to endlessly change rented apartments, work day and night. Will Raushania be able to break out of the vicious circle of diseases, lack of money and become a recognized artist?

Death. The End. The Beginning

NR 2018
Government House

The film´s title designates a luxury housing block in Moscow, built around 1930 for Stalinist officials. This is something we cannot see. Not really. But somehow, we can, because we are being shown the interior and the roof of an empty-looking building: dark stairways, rooms, corridors and halls, along with glimpses of a metropolis at night in the background. Most of all, however, this film shows vibration: it is vibration. A phantom-like figure (in the end there will be two) moves through these spaces ditheringly, attached to bright filaments reminiscent of a gigantic web. Vibration pervades everything we are being shown here – all of the house and all of the image. It all jerks in a stop-motion-like non-movement caused by changes in the lighting.

Government House

NR 2018
A Kitchen Reading

The artist reads aloud a piece of text written in English and the artist's friend Sofya Melnichuck orally translates the reading into Russian on the spot. The reading was filmed at the communal kitchen of Artkommunalka*. The kitchen was the place where families in the communal apartment exchanged their ideas, arts, and samizdats during the Soviet era. Unlike other works by the artist, this video was made with an awareness that the work would go through a translation in the future (in this case, into Korean). There are multiple translations in the work: from written text to spoken words, from spoken to spoken words, from English to Russian, and finally from spoken words (English) to written text (Korean subtitles). The text that is read and translated in the video keeps referring back to itself by discussing these various translations and the corresponding processes.

A Kitchen Reading

NR 2018
Long Road to School

He has seven children, but he lives alone. "They offended me very much, I don't want to see any of them," Kami Durge is angry. In his youth, he worked hard to feed a large family — he didn't even think about school. And now, not the finger, trying to catch up, has become the most diligent student. Neither neighbors nor relatives understand his thirst for knowledge and laugh at the old man, but he does not pay attention. "I will get an education and teach the children of our village," a tenth grader dreams on the threshold of his seventieth birthday.

Long Road to School

NR 2016
Satuma, the Land of Dreams

It happens that people living under the same roof and united by common concerns do not feel intimacy and do not save each other from loneliness. So the brothers Morpheus and Vilkas seem to be made of different materials. The elder Morpheus is heavy, viscous, like a lump of clay, which he kneads. And the younger Vilkas has the wind in his head, he wants to escape from all worries. All the more strange and unexpected should be the case that will bring them closer together.

Satuma, the Land of Dreams

NR 2014
Close People

The film presents one day in the life of several inhabitants of the city of K.: a divorced father and his 6-year-old daughter, who see each other once a month; a waitress at the cafe "Close People", who is waiting for the results of tests of her seriously ill mother; an elderly professor celebrating his birthday alone; a young guy leading a nocturnal lifestyle and not thinking about his mom at all. Each of the characters will find themselves in the cafe "Close people" this morning, the specialty of which is a magical chocolate cake that can unite people.

Close People

NR 2014