Alexandr Khudokon
2021Wasted
Alexandr Khudokon
Winter, black and white city zero. There is a spy around every corner, a door ready to come for you, an invasion of your personal space in every movement. The hero runs through the stone city, running not only from the ubiquitous system, but also from himself in it. Its history is a fragment of the everyday life in which we do not even wonder what this is for the next check on the road and who unceremoniously enters our house.
Wasted
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Alexandr Khudokon
The camera glides over the blue-green mountains and suddenly picks out a silver dome on a small plateau – one of the telescopes of the Special Astrophysical Observatory, the largest and most important astronomical center in Russia. It was built half a century ago-away from the bright city lights, closer to the sky – in the mountains of the Western Caucasus in Karachay-Cherkessia. A few kilometers below is a village with panel houses, a school, a club and an administration. In a small world, lost in space and time – whether it is the Soviet seventies, or the future of the Strugatsky novels – modern artists come with their works. The film unobtrusively confronts opposites-physicists and lyricists, schoolchildren and gray-haired scientists, the dome of the telescope and the tent of the temple, artifacts and ancient mountains. But the main opposition is the small Earth and the boundless Cosmos, to which people listen with bated breath.
Observatory
