180×100 cm film poster is digitally printed on an old fabric and assembled from three pieces. The illustration style and size of this poster are inspired by ‘Reklamfilm’ posters from the 70s.
Moscow Lights
...on the Moscow Avenue
Short film, 23 min 30 sec, 5k, Widescreen 2.66:1
"Moscow Lights" (Огни Москвы) is a short film I directed for the 2nd Triennial of Contemporary Art at the Garage Museum. "Moscow Lights" is also the name of a cafe in Kaliningrad where my parents used to take me when I was five.
The film is yet another chapter in the story of a fictional publishing house called Gluschenkoizdat. This time, the publisher is about to close its original Kaliningrad division and move everything to Moscow. Part of the team struggles with the changes and tries to find a way to survive in their hometown.
Typefaces: KTF Compact, KTF Rublena, Journal Sans
Written by Grigor Atanesian. Directed by Kirill Gluschenko. Сinematographer Vitaliy Selin. Artist Kirill Gluschenko. Sound engineer S. Obraztsov. Sound director S. Paushev. Costume designer N. Rubatskaya. Make-up artists: E. Janssen, E. Gosteva. Edited by K. Gluschenko. Line producer I. Litvinova. Artist assistants: A. Grigoriadi, D. Kulikov, V. Pavlyuk. Focus puller I. Parshikov. Technician O. Sosnitskiy. Sound director assistant Ya. Red'kin. Light N. Nosan'. Typeface Y. Anfalov, Poster illustrations D. Semenets, K. Mityushkina. Cast: Tatyana Rogacheva, Petr Mutin, Lyubov Orlova, Maria Chernova, Gennadiy Filippovitch, Anton Zabrodin. © Pionerskkurortfilm, 2020 © Gluschenkoizdat, 2020
PRESS PACK — Along with photos from the set, we use archival images from the Kaliningrad state archive for our Press Pack. In the photo above, you can see the Kaliningrad Region Union building from 1985. Its open courtyard used to be a beloved place for skaters in the 90s, but now it is all built up, and the building itself is surrounded by a fence. We set scenes of the Gluschenkoizdat office here.
LOCATION SCOUTING AND SET DESIGN — Due to obvious budget restraints of independent production (but also as an artistic objective), we set out to find authentic locations fit for light transformation with set decoration. Scouting took about six months.
SET — Besides props, the working desk is filled with different types of publisher's blanks, letters, ID cards, etc., that were all designed specifically for the film. One of the objects is a daily calendar: each day, besides the usual time of sunrise, sunset, and longitude of the day, has a different production drama genre film with information about its authors and a picture.
Handmade sign inside the publishing house: "Ecofeminism." Acrylic on fiberboard, 414 × 140 cm.
Handmade sign inside the printing house: "Poetry of Mature Quest." Acrylic on fiberboard, 560 × 103.5 cm.
Box for the film with the certificate of authenticity, 1/5.
MOSCOW AVENUE (1975) — Most of the film events take place here. The two-story building in the center is the Moscow Lights cafe. When I was five, my parents used to bring me here once a week, and I would wear a wool jacket with a bow tie. Behind the cafe, inside the block yard, there is Barrikady — a small cinema located in an old German building. The exhibition installation for our film (see below) is based on its interior. Barrikady was demolished in 2009.
