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ACT

1989 · 4 min

A brief, dreamlike drift through a grey city, more mood and texture than story, asking you to watch closely and let images wash over you.

Overview
Several fragments of one day in Leningrad in the autumn of 1989, refracted in the imagination of the artist.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • eeriestrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • absurdstrength 1 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • art
  • identity
  • memory
  • isolation
  • politics
Places
  • big city
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
  • documentary
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence none
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror2
Humour3
Realism6
Romance1
Tension3
Darkness4
Complexity7
Emotional weight4

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Details

Genres
comedy, documentary, music, history
Directed by
Dmitri Frolov
Starring
Dmitriy Shibanov, Mark Nahamkin, Mikhail Sopov, Natalya Surkova
Runtime
4 min
Country
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