Russia upward!
Video (in collaboration with D. Zinchenko), 12 min, 2010

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Video-film about emotional experience of typical russian intellectual. Protagonist of the film in spring off-season, filled with deep Russian existential metaphysics, wanders in a strange suburban space, where the mud exposes the reality in all its ineffability, wanders among the ruins, among the garbage along the banks of the river, on the field and somewhere near the power lines. And everywhere proclaims in the inner impulse: “Russia upward!”, “Achieve levitation in Russian Federation”.
Metaphorically, he represents a typical Russian intellectual, who is permanently trying to overcome insurmountable existential realities surrounding him, by the use of only force of idea, impulses of the soul, and in situation of no resulting advance the only thing left he can do is to get off the ground and try to rush up into space, calling his country with him.