Culture & Art

Serg Levine26.12.2022

In a fancy Parisian Café, an uptight bourgeois discovers he forgot to bring his wallet and bides his time by ordering more coffee. “French Roast” is a 2008 French computer-animated short film created by Fabrice Joubert. It received ANIMA – Córdoba International Animation Festival award in 2009. The storyline is very simple. A disheveled man […]

Olga Makarova11.12.2022

Obviously, for the success of the film with the jaded modern audience, everything matters. And it all, of course, begins with the original plot. For example, as in the film “Johnny Express” by South Korean author James (Kyingmin) Woo. And, although before the release of the film, he was engaged in animation for a relatively […]

Leon Pufferson08.09.2022

MAD GOD is a adult animated horror film made with technology that spans the history of cinema. It’s the result of a Series of contiguous short movies directed by legendary visual effects and stop-motion artist Phil Tippett. The sets, creatures, effects and spirit are, in every way, independent and created from the heart. Phil Tippett […]

Olga Makarova16.06.2022

The review of an animation: Detroit’s suburbs have been emptied by a housing crisis, but one house makes a choice. Among the deserted streets, boarded-up houses that were burned from inside out, and collapsing buildings, there was one eccentric house that did not want to quietly fade away along with the rest of the doomed […]

Serg Levine09.06.2022

The invitation of friends to the drum show “The Sea of the Blue Forest” at the Teatrium was a complete surprise for me, but I immediately accepted it, because I really wanted to compare the Russian version of the performance with the performance I saw at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas back in 1993. And […]

Roman Sviridov12.05.2022

The folds on the surface of the paper are like secret letters that were formed simultaneously with the world. However, understanding what literally lies on the surface is sometimes more difficult than unraveling the depths of space. Most likely, before the invention of paper, figures were also able to be folded, for example, from the […]

Serg Levine11.06.2020

“Hatred stirs up strife, But love covers all sins.” King Solomon In Palestinian territory, a local boy provokes an Israeli patrol soldier to chase after him. In this strange chase, the line disappears not only between the pursuer and the pursued, but also between reality and imagination. The bold mystical fantasy “Eli” of young Israeli […]

Pavel Chirkov14.05.2020

It is impossible to control something boundless, but everything can be declared a zone of one’s interests. In the American film “Frankie Rulez!!!” by director San Charoenchai, the comic character Frankie does something similar. He teleports to various parts of the infinite Universe for the sole purpose of fixing flags everywhere with his own portrait […]

Eugenia Gorbunova01.05.2020

Throughout the history people are fascinated by freaks. Scared, disgusted, but still fascinated. And it is no surprise that we see freaks on the big screen. “Frankenstein”, “Freaks”, “The Elephant Man” so on and so forth… It is such a vivid way of showing the difference between human and non-human. Every time we see a […]

Yuri Chekalin29.04.2020

Theology once believed that “translation” could mean direct removal to heaven of the body without intervening death. All too often in being translated, the poem loses its life. Literal translation of a poem into bare prose may help understanding, but the plain text of a literal version may not be accurate to the poem, for […]

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The 1980s French Roast

SIZE MATTERS!

Creating a Realm of the MAD GOD

Life Without a Dream Worth Nothing

Show of Japanese drummers, or taiko rhythms on the Russian stage

Invention of Origami Paper

One Day of Eli’s Life

“Lord” of the Universe

Who Do You Call a Freak Here?

The Poetry of Postwar Japan

The Michael Jackson Biopic is Missing its Most Controversial Story

Madama Butterfly and the Japan of the Western Imagination

The Spanish Civil War at 90: the Republic’s Response

Terminator Is about 80 Years Old