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Credits

Director	Aleksey Ilyin
Director	Grigory Kalinin
Scriptwriter	Aleksey Ilyin
Scriptwriter	Grigory Kalinin
Scriptwriter	Petr Bombin
Producer	Grigory Kalinin
Producer	Ella Skovorodina
Cinematographer / DP	Grigory Kalinin
Editor	Grigory Kalinin
Sound Designer	Radion Tadevosyan

cast

	Rodion Galuchenko
	Artur Muhamadiyarov
	Egor Rybakov
	Valentina Panina
	Ilya Ilyin

Biography

ALEXEI ILYIN
Actor, director. Graduated from the actor’s faculty of the Shchukin Theatre Institute (2001, class of Yu. Shlykov) and director’s faculty of the Higher Courses for Directors and Scriptwriters (class of V. Khotinenko, P. Finn, V. Fenchenko). Projects at the Praktika Theatre, Teatr.doc, the Meyerhold Centre. Founder of the creative association 911. Participant of the musical band Radiopeshka. Participant of the creative association Stand Up TsIMermana.

Filmography

2017 / «update/delete» / 10min. / action

Biography

GRIGORY KALININ
Actor, director, composer, cinematographer, editor. Graduated from the Theatre Institute RATI-GITIS (2004, class of R. Nemchinskaya). Projects at the Praktika Theatre, Teatr.doc, the Meyerhold Centre, Masterskaya Club. Participant of the creative associations 911 and Svinets i Kobalt (Lead and Cobalt). Participant of the musical bands Radiopeshka and Stolen Loops Project. Founder of the creative association ANSIKTET.

Filmography

2017 / «update/delete» / 10min. / action

Directors Statement

This work has become a debut for us as directors. Sharing our personal understanding of cinema language as it is was very important step because we believe that individual language and creative latitude are fundamental components of movie-making. Of course, we were afraid of we won’t be understood or accepted by the audience but our sincere intention to speak out as only we can do it did not allow us to settle for compromises. This is why it was very pleasant and flattering to have a positive response from the audience. There are a few main themes which are intersected between themselves in this movie: the total loneliness of one person in a big city and the incessant digital fixation of reality in the modern world. Also, we wanted to say how we know nothing (even if we try our best) about what is going on in the head of any person close to us. Despite our opinion, we were trying not to impose or dictate our point of view in the story we are telling. We think that it is more important to give our spectator some space for his internal dialogue with this story, let him find something personal in it and determine the boundaries of what is sad and what is funny there.