Underwater Guest

Mounting of the film by Dmitry Frolov on the basis of documentary frames of performances of Russian ballet dancers and lifeless margins of the Russian outback. Symbolizes the slowly naked and dying Russian world.

Author: 

Country: 

Russia

Year: 

1995
Technical data

Original format: 

35mm

Speed: 

24FPS

Aspect ratio: 

1.37:1

Colour: 

B&W

Sound: 

Sound

Length: 

10 minutes

Image Gallery: 

References: 

Distribution/sales: 

Festival Of Radical Directions In Reality Simulation Modern Art "Funeral Of The Cinema", St.Petersburg, Russia, September, 1995;
8-th Experimental Cinema Week, Madrid, Spain, November, 1998;
4-th International Independent Film Festival, St.Petersburg, Russia, November, 2001;
"Black box", 10-th Festival Experimental Cinema, St.Petersburg, Russia, December, 2001;
X International Festival of Arts "Sergey Oskolkov and his friends", St-Petersburg, Peterhof, Oranienbaum, Russia, June 2006.

Author(s)

  • Dmitri Frolov is one of the leaders of russian movievanguard in postperestroika age. He makes esthetic experiments connecting with return to dumb cinema on new level of movie language.

This article is part of the Experimental Cinema Wiki. You are welcome to join us and then edit it. Be bold!