Description
Special Screening Places, Spaces
The special screening Places, Spaces presents four films—each a state of being—directed by young Russian filmmakers.
How Azure Is Dying by Egor Skorokhodov is a landscape film, a meditation in the mountains, an observation of the overwhelming blueness of the sky.
In contrast, Darya Mareyeva’s Not Black But White is shot with a lively, dynamic camera. Its characters are young people crowded in rented apartments of panel housing, where these 21st-century songbirds sing their sad tunes.
The action in Father and Son by Vladimir Svirsky is imprinted on the walls of an apartment on a megacity’s outskirts, where the two characters bound to each other are locked in.
Finally, Elena Ziganshina’s documentary animation The Fisherman is a deeply personal story about the filmmaker’s grandfather, who suffers from dementia. While physically present at home, he is mentally on a fishing trip, and this imagined space becomes his last refuge.
The logic of this screening is one of progression: from the observed landscape to the imagined, from the external to the internal, from the distant to the close, from observation to engagement.
HOW AZURE IS DYING
Director Egor Skorokhodov
DOUBLE-SIDED
Director Daria Mareeva
FATHER AND SON
Director Vladimir Svirskiy
THE FISHERMAN
Director Elena Ziganshina