The writer and director Kristina Paustian is preoccupied with the idea of ​​making a film about the futurist poet Velimir Khlebnikov, who died over 100 years ago. 

 

SYNOPSIS

Velimir Khlebnikov was one of the biggest pacifists in early 20th century Russia, a futurist poet and mathematician, who believed it was possible to predict future wars. Immersed in the process of making a fiction film about him, the author of the film loses sleep, and at some point the project seems to come to a dead end. In order to establish a connection to Khlebnikov, she starts writing letters to him, in which she describes various scenes from the film that does not exist.

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" I did not sleep for what feels like eternity. One of the side effects of insomnia is: the past merges with the present, and the future seems empty. I go to bed in one place and in the morning I find myself on the other end of the world, in different places: Italy, Russia, Sahara, Kalmykia. It was here for the first time I learned the name of Velimir Khlebnikov..."

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© Kristina Paustian, Voices Films

Format: 2K, color

Length: 73 min

Language: English, Russian

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A production of Voices Films

in co-production with Kinokult, Mimesis, Revolver

 

Producers

Margarita Amineva-Jester

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Co-Producers

Tamara Bogdanova, Yanna Buryak, Paolo Maria Spina, Darya Susak

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Script, editing, executive production

Kristina Paustian

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Director of Photography

Sarah Yona Zweig

Kristina Paustian

Yuri Tokarev

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Music by

Oren Ambarchi

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Founded by

The Senate Department for Culture and Europe, Elsa-Neumann-Stipend, Literarisches Colloquium Berlin (LCB) and the Robert Bosch Foundation

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Technical Support

ARRI, SUD SOUND STUDIO ROME

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Realised at

The Künstlerhaus Lukas, Urbane Künste Ruhr in Germany

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Production Countries     

Germany, Russia, Italy