Daydreaming in the Hood. The Eight
The result of the
Daydreaming in the Hood is one of the most ambitious works within the the Expanding Space. Out of the Centre programme. Determined to explore the city and how it changes and affects its inhabitants, the director Andrey Silvestrov and the
It is important to say that our workshop was not a training one in which I would have acted as a teacher: it was always, first and foremost, an artistic project. It was not about teaching but about total involvement in a collective artistic process. When we conducted the interviews I was struck by how amazingly interesting people have joined us, how unique, talented and compassionate they all were. In fact, this experience, this sincere admiration for a human being as such, was what I really wanted to share with the viewer. And that is what we do in this web series.
The interviews with the participants are filmed following the so-called '180-degree rule': the camera shooting the interviewer and interviewee is not permitted to cross an imaginary line uniting their gazes. And although the camera's point of view and the extent to which it closes in on its subjects may vary, a sense of presence is thus maintained. This technique allows a conversation continue indefinitely.
TheV–A–C Foundation’s own film production began in 2019, when, in conjunction with the League of Experimental Cinema, we launched the Daydreaming in the Hood project. The resulting almanac was selected for the competition in the programme of the Spirit of Fire Debut Film Festival (2020), just as the short films of the participants embarked upon their own independent lives. In this sense, the web series is perhaps the most intimate part of the project. Each episode is a portrait of one of the "debutant" authors. Sometimes funny, sometimes touching, these short stories go to the essence of what Daydreaming... and its creators are about: focused interest in the individual human beings.
The series was shown in two seasons: the first season premiered on the official YouTube channel of the Iskusstvo Kino (Art of Cinema) magazine, the second — in the Sreda online magazine.
In partnership with SNOB and Radio Kultura.
Produced by:
Director — Andrey Silvestrov
Camera — Daniil Fomichev
Script — Lyusya Artemyeva
Editing — Yuri Golubev
Curator — Kirill Adibekov
Producer — Stasia Dementieva
The series characters
Season 1
Katya Zubkova — student, translator from Japanese
Yura Golubev — film editor, founder of Uzbekistains first noise band
Yana Sidorkina — artist, Moscow vice-champion in Tae Kwon Do
Yana Osman — sociologist at the Higher School of Economics
Alexandra Kharina — stage designer
Vladimir Milovanov — oncology surgeon
Ivan Susarin — musician, performance artist, member of the VASYA RUN project
Svetlana Yakovleva — student at the Higher School of Economics, professional swimmer
Season 2
Oleg Koronny — scriptwriter, journalist, film director
Vladimir Vyalov — computer programmer, media artist, student of Rodchenko School of Photography and Multimedia
Anastasia Vereikina — animation directing major at the Russian State University of Cinematography (VGIK)
Mikhail Bodukhin — film editor, retired computer programmer, amateur cinema scholar
Pyotr Voloshin — Muscovite from Sevastopol, Russian language and literature scholar
Elena Skripkina — theologian, artist, graduate student in religious philosophy