Description
Synopsis:
If architecture is “frozen music”, then the façades of buildings are its score. Exploring the architecture of the post-Soviet space, from wooden architecture to Baroque and Classicism, from Art Nouveau to Stalinist and Khrushchev architecture, which has continued in the prefabricated buildings of new districts, often described as “humanhills”, we try to understand what this centuries-old symphony could sound and look like, and most importantly, we find that irreconcilable conflict between the individual and the masses, unique and typical, which is reflected even in “stone”.
About the director:
Alexey Evstigneev. Graduated from Viktor Lisakovich and Alexei Gelein’s workshop at the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography in 2020. In 2022 he enrolled in a master’s degree in Jiří Barta’s animation workshop at the University of West Bohemia in Plzeň. He has also particiapated in the IDFA Talent Campus and the Visions du Reel Talent Campus, among others. His student film The Golden Buttons made the European Film Academy longlist and won a prize at the Krakow IFF. He is currently working on an animated documentary film titled Father’s Letters, which has received international support from CNC, Euro Connection and CYCLIC Residence.