Fricks casting for the role of freaks

“Gorky Fest” pleased with absurd successes. Of the best - "Shadows of Moscow" Valery Pereverzev

“Gorky Fest” in Nizhny Novgorod will complete the work tomorrow. A festival with a special competition in which full -length game paintings compete with a short meter and dock.

The educational program of the Nizhny Novgorod filmmaker this year is devoted to the avant -garde, which today is again difficult to break through the long -standing amulet of Soviet culture: "traditional values." But once all those who are now proud of-Eisenstein, Pudovkin, Barnet, Dovzhenko-made a revolution in art, opened new ways, were listed in the ranks of avant-garde ... for which they paid in the 30s. This, in particular, was told by Naum Kleiman, Vsevolod Korshunov, Natalya Ryabchikova and others. The program of this year, collected by Andrei Apostolov, was controversial, provocative, a lot of experimental works that enraged some and interested others.

Will the Ministry of Safety take the film?

The most interesting among them is Valery Pereverzev's “Shadows of Moscow” .

Before showing, a director, similar to Karabas-Barabas, said that something inadequate awaits us. And that today the movie will watch us.

Looks.

At the beginning of confusion with the words: “propaedeutics”, “frame”, “cinema” - a search for definitions. Language search. Film search as elusive matter.

The distributor is reflected in the mirror, breaks the frame on the set. Who will remove the distributor? The director demands: Take it off!

The heroine of the film Emma (Julia Pereverzeva) takes care of the very elderly lady Lyudmila Ivanovna (Elena Koreneva). The lady says metaphors: “My curtains as a diaphragm of the film camera. Curtains open - a film image is born. ” The lady categorically objects to the plastic - after Tarkovsky. But Emma, who helps his grandmother (not free), and does not know who Tarkovsky is. She is in love with Moscow, she wanders (floats) around the city in search of a shaky Moscow. Who creates whom? Emma-composing his own city city? Or is the city a girl? Or the author of the film Pereverzev?

In this city of DRAS, the old electronics brothers are found in the subway on the Revolution Square. Orlova flies to the Kremlin. And two stewardesses cosplay different images from different times.

Casting Friciks for the role ... Frikov. Snow in the summer. And the screen broken into separate frames.

Sentences like: "Television does not affect, but simply satisfies demand." So said Steve Jobs. But who is Steve Jobs, the grandmother already does not know.

The film is like a movie dispute, its essence. About the usual, killing search.

But the dispute is too dry. Here the absurdity steers. However, where exactly? In this movie ... or in permits for cinema? And the authors of the film in the film do not know to the last whether the Ministry of Safety will accept their film?

It is curious that Pereverzev’s crazy film was given a rental certificate in life without finding seditious sizes.

"Will there be good songs?" - the authors ask the producers. Oh yes. The soundtrack is excellent. So this is a musical and poetic absurdity.

The critic reproaches the author - where in his incoherent movie drama, the depth of the emotions of the characters. And in the end, "What about your cinema at the end?"

The Khudruk is also against the film: this avant-garde director will not understand that cinema is money. Who excites the experiments?

And the director creates his film in spite of. Rules, genres, established traditions. Merchandising (vodka and beer requires "insert" into the frame). The heroine aims in us, thinking that we are aliens. Most likely she is not right.

Out of habit, you decide what this impudent, crazy avant -garde comedy is similar to. This is madness (quite fascinating) outside of any conventions. At the late movie of Godra? No. In the early cinema Pereverzev, who shot the scandalous film "Brother 3". And the new picture will definitely have admirers. I, for example.

PS promised Alexander Revva, who is waiting, waiting for ... will still appear. And this is a spoiler.

PPS glaring injustice. The brilliant Elena Korenev was closed with a fat white cross. Honestly, I thought that there were some problems with the actress. But no, most likely this is the director’s decision. And perhaps this madness is not justified, unforgivable.

Good night to everyone! This is the end of the world!

The second experimental film "End of the end" of Anton Biljo and Alfia Khabibullina. About the apocalypse that is already coming.

Collective cinema. Movie-by-comittee, similar to free jazz, when the melody of one musician picked up and develops another. Here these are young "tenants." Cinema in the spirit of experiments and laboratories Andrei Sylvestrov or the search for Rastorguev and Kostomarov, who during the filming of the film “I Love You” handed out their chambers to their heroes. And they shot themselves. Moreover, among the participants-characters and the producer of the film Maxim Dobromyslov.

Anton Biljo himself, who mounted the picture, had the experience of such searches - “Ya. Fear. Claustrophobia".

So, directors, actors, operators, artists, sound engineers, musicians, one producer and just friends. We decided to play Melancholy. The topic is relevant.

Film Fantasy, how we will meet the end of the world. Each has its own micro-will inside the apocalypse that happened due to an incomprehensible virus. The plot fragments were reduced on installation into one whole. Everyone came up with a character, a small fate, different stories intersect.

Who plays whom and who shoots whom, the authors turn into characters and vice versa. They are already cut off from the "former" world. The forest is the last refuge, and from the signs of a collapsed civilization - a TV, among the interference broadcasting: “Good night to everyone! This is the end of the world. "

... Entrepreneur Peter is looking for a missing wife-mail in a gloomy forest. The girl was mired in an imaginary romance with a revolver and is ready to go to the last. The fraudster robs the robber. Anna feels like an Ophelia after the death of his lover. Lisa took up her spiritual development. Margo will find the guilty in all troubles - a TV - and try to kill him. The ITSHNIK-Visoberty Pavel, wrapped in foil, decides to escape through the portal into another dimension using a large, connected to a satellite plate.

In the finale there will be a memorial feast in which the heroes will finally connect with their characters.

And also songs to the walkie -talkie, alarming dust mushrooms, dawn dope. And a lot of foil.

A marginal film as an attempt to find the way out of the path situation. Cinema is really very expensive today. And the state mainly supports "state films." How to be the author? In the footsteps of Russo: "Back to nature?" But the viewer has already bought popcorn and settled tightly in an armchair. Will he go for marginals with his author's optics in the forest?

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Alexey German at one of the discussions remarked: “It is fine that they began to make science fiction and create worlds. Let's not deceive yourself: 80% will be copy -paste. But this is the necessary stage of the industry, waiting for dreamers who will create their fantastic unique worlds. The problems are that ideas come from producers, but should go from the authors. We need our “star wars”, where music, costumes, visual images play a huge role. Slowly there will be such authors ... Let all the flowers bloom. "

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