Written, directed, and edited by
Dimitri Venkov
Collaborating writers
Alexander Evangely
Leonid Studenikin
Academic consultants
Evgenia Demina
Andrei Tutorski
Alexandrina Vanke
Pavel Kostylev
Oleg Aronson
David Riff
Cited works by
Bronislaw Malinowski
Claude Lévi-Strauss
Michael Taussig
Jean Langford
Émile Durkheim
Viktor Garadja
Mircea Eliade
Mad Mimes
2012, 30 minutes, Russian dialogue with English, SD video
An anthropological study of a cargo cult in a fictitious self-marginalized commune, which existed next to the Moscow Ring Road - a highway that marks the boundaries of the Russian capital - and survived mainly on roadside trash. Although the road provided for their basic needs, the existence of the commune was extremely precarious and highly dependent on the roadway's fluctuations. This dependency led them to develop a cargo cult of the road.
Screenings:
2018
Pejman Foundation, Tehran, Iran
2015
Rodchenko School. Generation Next, Multimedia Art Museum Moscow
Forum Alanica, Vladikavkaz
Cannibal Manifesto: Mimesis as Resistance, Karst Foundation, Plymouth
Close and Far, Mead Gallery, Warwick Art Centre
2014
Burning News, Hayward Gallery Project Space, London
Close and Far, Calvert 22 Gallery, London
Goeast Film Festival, Open Frame Award, Wiesbaden, Germany
Video#Russia!, PERMM, Perm, Russia
2013
'Constructed Sceneries' - the film program of 'Scenographies' exhibition, SMBA, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
The Voice and the Chorus,Russian video art in Museum De Hallen. Haarlem, The Netherlands
Kino der Kunst, Munich, Germany
2012
Kandinsky prize exhibition, Moscow
31st Jean Rouch Film Festival, Paris
XI International Kansk Video Festival, Kansk
Days of Ethnographic Cinema, Moscow
The workshop vs. The Film Process, NCCA Moscow
No Exception, Moscow Art and Multimedia Museum
34th International Moscow Film Festival
Awards:
Kandinsky Prize 2012. Young Artist of the Year