Petrograts

A wild ironization and deconstruction of the old Soviet pathos of the victory of technical progress – like the accelerated pulse just before a heart attack. The film is made in the technique of applying an image on a 35mm film. As a source material used some footage from the film by Evgeny Yufit "Silver Heads". In 1999, the film "Cola" took part in the Berlinale. Plot: nature cannot stop science, which creates a hybrid of man and tree.

The artist uses old archive films in a new way by drawing and scratching on 35mm film. The original material is documentary movies produced by amateur Soviet studios in the 1970s.

1942. Young men, graduates of a reconnaissance school, develop and carry out extremely complex operations behind enemy lines.

Petya plays the dulcimer and loves his Muscovite with a Zaporozhets engine. Zhuzha loves twist and movies with Gerard Philip. The third one doesn't like to talk about himself. And it's better for others to keep quiet in his presence... The story unfolds in the 60s around a few days of the life of a young man named Petya, who fell in love with an older and more experienced girl who is unable to sort out her feelings.

Mikhail Kulakov, the protagonist of the film, is a prominent figure of the Russian unofficial art scene of the 50s-60s. He was an abstractionist, a tachiste, a participant in the first underground expositions. He lived and worked at great extremes, advocating the idea of freedom as the supreme value.