Empty Places

A slow, introspective plunge into creative ambition and existential drift, demanding patience but rewarding with quiet emotional resonance.

Directed by

Nikita Miklushov

Genres

Drama

Starring

Vitaly Abramovsky, Mikhail Davydov, Polina Kapantina

Overview

Four friends convene at a café and engage in a peculiar game entitled "Empty Space". Thereafter, their paths diverge for a prolonged period. Each endeavours to find self-realisation through various forms of creative activity, seeking to impose their minor and superfluous art upon a vast and indifferent world.

How it feels

Melancholic, earnest and dark. Slow-burning and demanding.

About

Art, identity, isolation, ambition

Content

Mild violence, sexual content and language. No gore.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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