Oleg Mavromatti
2021The Secret Aesthetics of the Martian Spies
Oleg Mavromatti, Svetlana Baskova
Sergey Pakhomov, Aleksandr Maslaev
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 Secret Aesthetics of the Martian Spies
Дуракам здесь не место
Oleg Mavromatti
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.
No Place for Fools
The Juche Idea
Jim Finn
Jung Yoon Lee, Daniela Kostova
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.
The Juche Idea
Страус, Обезьяна и Могила
Oleg Mavromatti
Viktor Lebedev
Will the life of the video blogger Gorin of Lugansk change after he encounters a UFO? "Monkey Ostrich and Grave" is the story of the video blogger Genadi Gorin of Lugansk (the capital of the new republic, which appeared during the Russian/Ukrainian war in 2014), whose life floats parallel to the horrific reality of the unfinished war.
Monkey, Ostrich and Grave
Полупроводник
Oleg Mavromatti
Anna Den, Viktor Lebedev
Romantic Anya Kadet is a video blogger and employee of the railway depot. One day she meets an eccentric Kulebyakin who damages her. All together - both a real fairy tale and a horror movie. The author was inspired by the prose of Yuri Mamleev, but removes like Hitchcock.
Semiconductor
Выблядки
Oleg Mavromatti
Elena Lapteva, Egipetskii Mag
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.
Bastards
Блинная машина
Oleg Mavromatti
Kana Se, Maxim Shalko
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.
Pancake Machine
