This film is a humorous one minute sociological essay on reality, dreams, illness and rights. The reasoning of authority: “if you think you’re a moth, you’re ill (in the head). The ill are not allowed to fly”. Translated by me.

by Vadim Kurchevsky. 1966. English subtitles A magical film about love, poetry, and life. If you love, says the narrator, then do something wonderful. Turn into a green leaf, for example.

by Andrei Khrjanosvky, music score by Alfred Shnittke. 1968. English subtitles. This film is a requiem for the Artist. Throughout history, power, capital and authority rape, incarcerate, and murder the creative spirit. This film is an unsurpassed; masterpiece on violence that speaks to all beyond the frontiers of time, national borders, or race. Part 1: […]

based on a novella by Nikolay Karamzin – For an in-depth analysis, see my book “Children’s Literature, Domestication, and Social Foundation: Narratives of Civilization and Wilderness” (Routledge 2015). Every society produces its own version of prescriptions for what to do and taboos, of explanations about how the world functions and of natural and social rules. In […]

based on the story by F. Dostoevsky Part 1: Part 2: Part 3:

1985. English subtitles. A humorous film on raising people.

by Yuri Norstein Part 1: Part 2:

by Nikolai Serebriakov. 1968. English subtitles This is a knitter’s treasure! The philosophy of the world knit by the dexterous and creative old woman who finds a magic ball of wool. Then the world she creates gets deconstructed by her insatiable greed for new things, more things and the desire to acquire a new face. […]

by Yuri Norstein 1977. English subtitles.