2016 | Documentary | 86 min. | Russia
This movie is a part of CITY CODE cross-media project, where citizens are trying to explore their hometown with a camera. Plot aims to find out territory’s peculiarities — city code. Each of 8 stories reveals an important place or character to make up the collective portrait: butcher, who used to be a jazzman, artist from the marketplace, dancer-fireman, Rostov’s beauty and many others. While exploring the world through the lens, participants step by step change attitude to the daily environment and inner life, discover questions to answer in front of spectator all over again. Was shot by people for whom cinema had always been a dream and became a reality.
Directors Statement
CITY CODE is a Russian national crossplatform art project in which residents create a portrait of their hometown. The team formed from the citizens who can apply for participation no matter what their current occupation or professional skills are. Participants choose specific themes and characters, shoot and edit short stories by themselves. The project takes place in the lab where professionals from the cinema industry helps to new authors. Work was started in the fall of 2013 in Pervouralsk and in 2015 was held in Rostov-on-Don, there «Looking on the Other Bank» was made. Now there is a preparation of projects in many other Russian cities: Vladivostok, Krasnoyarsk and Irkutsk.
Directors: Olga Bondareva, Evgeny Grigorev, Nadezhda Khatskevich, Mariya Korenkova, Georgiy Obukhov, Alena Savelyeva, Dmitriy Tsupko, Mariya Ryazantseva and Alena Popushenko
Producer: Anna Selyanina
Studio: «Pervoe Kino» Film Company
