Igor Aleynikov

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The piece presents a series of bizarre tableaux, many involving cinematic voyeurism, blurring of the living-dead borderline and a healthy amount of stabbing, of oneself and of others. A catatonic fellow gets costumed as a ghoul; a literal tree-hugger, ecstatic in his arboreal embrace, gets stabbed; a bespectacled fellow with a Bolex-y camera goes around documenting it all.

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The brothers Aleinikov lay out turgid governmental speeches about "the rearing of a new man" under footage of dudes goofing around in space-alien costumes. They roll footage of apple-cheeked future Stakhanovites upside down and backwards. They crudely animate - in a certain South Parkian way - CCCP (USSR) icons in a goofy manner.

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One of the most impressive symbols of a happy Soviet life, peaceful labour and rich harvest. Being mystified to the highest degree, the film acquires traits of a mystical animal, a human being and just a machine.

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The waste of the toy factory "Ogonyok", clumps of multicolored thermally deformed plastic, turn into a new biological species, then into a new direction of modern art, then into an isolated language of a native tribe discovered by linguists in the jungle, where words must be carried silently with you and shown if necessary, then into heroes of crazy phantasmagoric news.

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"Cinema Verite" with existential metaphorism. 16mm.

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Found footage and found sound. Badly solarized training films, documentary fragments, speeches of USSR party leaders and rock 'n' roll form a horrifying picture of media pressure.

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"Cinema Verite" with existential metaphorism. 8mm.

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An artist is searching for a subject in the open air. Suddenly, a man emerges from a chimney. They become acquainted. The artist invites his new acquaintance to his studio and shows him his work. Suddenly, in a parallel reality, they find themselves members of a radical cell in Germany, where the future of that country is being foretold. The vision disappears. And the artist paints a portrait of his new acquaintance. It is 1982. A portrait of Leonid Ilyich is visible in Red Square. War is raging in the Falkland Islands.

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Since part of the filming was carried out on the 9th floor, from the window of the Biryulevskaya high-rise building, as if from the point of view of an angel, only not flying, but sitting in a high tower.

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The film is an experimental independent film exploring Soviet reality.

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