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Oleg Yurevich Mavromati (1965, Volgograd, Russia), known as Mavromatti, is a Russian artist, activist, and filmmaker.
Yaroslav Oktiabrev is a simple guy who works as a freelancer. But then fate presents him with a gift — it is necessary to consult online a former military man with the call sign "Brother", so that he takes old documents from an abandoned building, and you can forget about money problems in life. However, the military turns out to be an uncontrollable schizophrenic, and only a former colleague, crazy blogger Gennady Gorin, knows how to settle him down. On top of that, the customer begins to threaten Yaroslav with violence if he does not have time to do everything in a couple of hours. A seemingly trivial task suddenly turns into a real disaster, because of which the Person is already at risk of losing not only his job, but also his own life.
Dr. Eugene has a goal - to perform the operation of his life. To do this, he escapes from a certain research institute of the brain and begins to look for the only person suitable for this purpose.
Jim Finn, follows a South Korean video artist in North Korea who hopes to revitalize Juche cinema, somewhat inspired by a true story of a South Korean filmmaker kidnapped in the 70s to make the North Korean film industry better. This experimental satire that examines what happens when a South Korean filmmaker sojourns into communist North Korea to breathe new life into that country's flagging, propaganda-driven movie industry. Believing that cinema can prop up North Korea's Juche Idea of self-reliance, mad dictator Kim Jong-Il pulls out all the stops to help the young émigré produce appropriate films.
Seen through the eyes of Rebecca Gibbs, a young abuse victim, I DON'T WANNA FEEL NOTHIN' NO MORE is an intense drama that chronicles three generations of incest among the women in one family as they struggle to maintain their strength and dignity against almost overwhelming odds.
Two Russian prisoners are abused mentally and physically.
This is a story about a man who believes that he has two “selves” - external and internal. That is, an organism is a certain conglomerate of cells, each of which is a separate individual. This hybrid creature has a certain common personal “I” that uses the entire organism, and is the organism itself, which has its own will. According to the character, one can communicate with him, which is what he is trying to do. He wants to reach him and comes up with different ways of communication: injecting substances under the skin or intravenously, tattooing texts on the body, swallowing objects. The answer would come in the form of a rash or other physical manifestation that had to be interpreted. As a result, communication is carried out and the second “I” agrees to die.
A manifesto for radical trans-humanism.
The young vlogger Maximka shares revelations about his life, death, women and capitalism before making the decision of sex change. Already as a woman, she shares her thoughts about the transformation and that life as a woman is not what she expected.
Martian Spies tells a love story between a boy who pretends to be a terrorist and a young girl, who is the wife of a KGB agent. The boy tells her that he has been hired to shoot the president – Yeltsin. The end is poetic yet addressing the politics of revenge and corruption in Russia. Miners stand in front of their mine, singing a song, which tells the story of contemporary Russian politics.
The protagonist in "Bastards" is a young resident of some Russian city. He unsuccessfully tries to adapt to the modern Russian savage life. The world around him lives by rules dictated by the black market and Chechen wars. It is a cruel and unjust world, where you can survive only with a bunch of stolen dollars instead of brains. For a young Russian, money is a symbol of power and strength. Even the new state ideology feeds on blood oil dollars. In Russia there is no more room for dreams. This is the era of anti-utopia.
Sergey Astahov is a gay man converted by Church and state propaganda into an orthodox pro-Putin activist. Composed of terrifying images from Astahov's blog, this documentary by contemporary artist Oleg Mavromatti is the most radical insight into today's Russia and its ideological clashes.
About the impossibility for the East to acquire the art language of the West, the ever existing problem of communication between the blind and the deaf.