Virgin Wind

By mixing abstraction, collage, drawing animation the author invites us into a spontaneous and unsystematic research of potential of the animation and leads us into the world of irrepressible imagination.

Even the most audacious dreams can become a reality.

The film is about the transformation and inner liberation of the protagonist, who found himself in the bleak sequence of everyday life of an office worker.

A mysterious story of a man who got stuck at a provincial hotel, where strange things are happening and guests keep dying one after another.

The shadow, or the dark twin, has turned into a spokesperson for all that is obsessive, perverse and rebellious.

War for our attention has suddenly become an actual war. Information technologies appear not just as mere means for somebody’s ends but as something having their agency, as one of the acting forces rendering possible a horrific event, which is very hard to accept and almost impossible to comprehend. We have no control over it and are doomed to scroll through the newsfeed.

Bureaucracy of the unknown. However permanent and stable any order may seem, it may eventually crumble when reality outside of the system creeps in, growing like organic matter through the boundaries that the order has imposed.

Good and evil, utopia and dystopia, narrative and post narrative collide in a mortal battle for fun to public.

New animated film by Ilya Yudovich.

In high-contrast images reduced to black, white, and red and with expressive illustrations and computer-generated 3D sculptures, Sasha Svirsky formulates his outcry against the war in Ukraine, thus giving a voice to the many Russians who oppose it. He portrays Peter the Great (1672–1725), the first emperor of the Russian Empire, as a ruthless man of power who has lost all respect for human life.

Fixies tell where books come from and how headphones help to write a dictation. Riki and Tyra hatch their dreams and have a carnivorous flower at home. Smeshariki will learn the secret of strong friendship and teach Pin to fly. And Bodo Borodo will go to conquer high waves and watch cartoons at the animation festival.