Film Archive

Extended Reality 2022
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Dragzina
Nikita Shokhov, Masha Vorslav
Where are the spaces for the LGBTQIA2S+ culture in Russia? This AR experience opens a digital safe space for the drag scene where they can perform without fear of violence.
2022
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Dragzina

Dragzina
Nikita Shokhov, Masha Vorslav
Extended Reality 2022
XR
USA,
Russia,
UK
2022
12 minutes
English,
Russian

The LGBTQIA2S+ community in Russia is facing an increasingly hostile social climate, is tabooed and criminalised. The AR experience opens a digital safe space for the local drag scene where they can perform without fear of violence. At the same time, this artistic occupation of heteronormatively dominated places is a political intervention.

Lars Rummel

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Producer
Anna Evtiugina
Production Company
iPureland.art
AR Developer
Yuan Li
Interactive Design
Parker Ford
Artistic Design
Alexey Golubev, Vannet, Zac Kim
Creative Technologist
Zach Duer
Sound
Konstantin Andzhanovskii
Score
Ultraflex, Anoche Xenon
Performer
Masha Vorslav, Lorina Rey, Anoche Xenon, Skinny Jenny, Polis Vera/Robert, Vanessa Diziai, Ramona Vile, Vannet
Key Collaborator
Moscow gender play community "Dragzina", Moscow drag community "Home Drag Race", Ilya Lagerfeld
Director
Nikita Shokhov, Masha Vorslav
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Lada, Ivan’s Sister

Lada, sestra Ivana
Olesya Shchukina
Competition for the Audience Award Short Film 2022
Animated Film
France,
Russia
2021
7 minutes
Russian
Subtitles: 
English

With childlike ease, entertaining and touching, this colourful animation shows the transition of a woman who was born in the “wrong body”. With her family’s support and understanding, Ivan becomes Lada – a happy, content person. Based on a true individual story, this film is also a parable on the ingenuity of the transgender community who sometimes have to take unusual paths to establish a life worth living in an ignorant environment.

Borjana Gaković

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Director
Olesya Shchukina
Script
Anastasia Patlay
Editor
Olesya Shchukina
Producer
Pavel Loparev, Irina Khodyreva
Sound
Andrey Guryanov
Animation
Iulia Voitova, Arman Avdalyan
Winner of: Silver Dove (Competition for the Audience Award Short Film)
International Competition Short Film 2022
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Swallowtails
Yana Osman, Anton Khamchishkin
Spring 2022, Russia: How is protest against the Ukraine war possible? Can a film be an act of resistance despite censorship? Yes, in a detailed contemplation of the Kremlin wall, for example.
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Swallowtails

Lastochkiny khvosty
Yana Osman, Anton Khamchishkin
International Competition Short Film 2022
Documentary Film
Russia
2022
17 minutes
Russian
Subtitles: 
English

In the spring of 2022, security guards in Moscow are tense. Under the guise of a film competition on the architecture of the city, Yana Osman and Anton Khamchishkin are permitted, if nothing else, to film the battlements of the Kremlin wall. But how to speak of the attack when you have to say “special military operation”? How to create pictures of resistance when filming any protest is forbidden? By pondering swallows and mathematical catastrophe theory, for example.

Marie Kloos

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Director
Yana Osman, Anton Khamchishkin
Cinematographer
Anton Khamchishkin
Editor
Anton Khamchishkin, Yana Osman
Producer
Yana Osman
Sound
Anton Khamchishkin
Score
Uri Lankin
Soul-Things 2022
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The Wound
Anna Budanova
A girl affected by ostracism creates a little demon. Mental pain becomes a dominant identity figure that seems impossible to get rid of.
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The Wound

Obida
Anna Budanova
Soul-Things 2022
Animated Film
Russia
2012
10 minutes
without dialogue
Subtitles: 
None

A girl affected by ostracism angrily creates a little demon that is to follow her forever from now on, comforting her in moments of disappointment, but also keeping her locked in her loneliness. In Budanova’s beautiful animation, mental pain takes the shape of an identity figure that seems impossible to get rid of.

Malte Stein

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Director
Anna Budanova
Producer
studio Ural-Cinema
Animation
Mikhail Dvoryankin, Anna Kritzkaya