Description
Elm seeds, blanketing the streets in the spring, perform their dance to the whims of wind and chance. Yet one seed, unwilling to join as a mere guest at this ball, dances in defiance of all physical laws.
22.10.2025 in 19:30. Out of Autofocus: Films by Mikhail Basov-2, Lenfilm cinema, hall 1
Time and place
Wednesday,
22 October 2025 at 19:30
Lenfilm Cinema:
Kamennoostrovsky avenue, 10
Description
Free Movements
2013, Russia, 6 min., o.v.-Russian, documentary, short-length
Director: Mikhail Basov
Film for Imaginary Music
2014, Russia, 6 min., o.v.-Russian, documentary, short-length
Director: Mikhail Basov
A Plastic Bottle’s Stair Dance
2018, Russia, 5 min., o.v.-Russian, documentary, short-length
Director: Mikhail Basov
OUT OF AUTOFOCUS
2016, Russia, 2 min., o.v.-Russian, documentary, short-length
Director: Mikhail Basov
LA BAGATELLE
2021, Russia, 8 min., o.v.-Russian, documentary, short-length
Director: Mikhail Basov
Short Circuits
2020, Russia, 18 min., o.v.-Russian, documentary, short-length
Director: Mikhail Basov
Free Movements
Film for Imaginary Music
Description
An old vinyl disc rolls along the shore, propelled by no discernible external force. This faithfully captured event resembles animation. Devoid of a soundtrack, the video beckons viewers to envision the music once etched upon the disc and the sounds that accompanied its tracing of a groove through the sand.
A Plastic Bottle’s Stair Dance
Description
A plastic bottle performs a stair dance, hopping up and down, tapping out wild rhythms akin to a Broadway dancer. At first glance, it appears merely tossed about by gusts of wind. But is that truly so?
Out of Autofocus
Description
Gulls, soaring over the sea, traverse the expanse of a static shot, gliding in and out of frame, while the camera labors to capture its elusive focus point – succeeding only in a few short moments. At last, one gull is ensnared in the lens’s focus. From that instant onward, it finds itself bound within a magical trap, compelled to seek its escape.
La Bagatelle
Description
A ticking clock. A view through a window: the rhythmic pulse of spring thaw – melting ice dripping through the holes in a drainpipe, droplets falling onto a child’s hand and a withered grapevine. All these random, disparate, and trifling things, sounds, and movements begin to share a common life, communicating with each other and the essence of time.
Short Circuits
Description
The documentary material transforms according to the logic of dreams: everyday actions, performed by people in the rhythm of ordinary life, evolve into strange, ritualistic acts. Metaphorical, imagined connections between objects and events are presented as objective, tangible realities. The properties of one thing manifest themselves in another. The mundane encounters the fantastical.
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