No Pedestrian Crossing
Observational documentary about social order. Russian street crossing deconstructed.
Volunteers
Filmed between 2007 and 2012, the film depicts daily routines of the volunteers working in Russian residential facilities for children with developmental disabilities, and in asylums for mentally disabled adult people. The volunteers belong to an NGO that promotes practices of care which are reluctantly accepted by the facilities' administration.
English subtitlesThe First Wave
In March 2020, when lockdown was about to start, the author asked his acquaintances from several places around the world to shoot short videos on their phones showing what was going on in their lives. Participants of the project sent their video diaries and could see each other's contributions on Vimeo. These materials have been used to make "The First Wave".
English subtitlesPugovka
A documentary film about a civil resistance campaign against the attempt of the Russian authorities to close the leading Russian private graduate school, European University at St. Petersburg, in February–March 2008, under pretext of fire safety violations.
English subtitlesKupalo: Summer Solstice Festival
The celebration of Summer Solstice by a neo-pagan community looks like a role-playing game, but is a religious ritual of a re-invented pagan tradition.
English subtitlesFull Moon Meditation
Greyhound bus through the night.