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Mad Mimes

The film is a study of the mimetic practices in a fictitious self-marginalized commune located next to the Moscow Ring Road, a highway that marks the boundaries of the Russian capital.

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An anthropological study of a cargo cult in a fictitious self-marginalized commune, which existed next to the Moscow Ring Road - a highway that marks the boundaries of the Russian capital - and survived mainly on roadside trash. Although the road provided for their basic needs, the existence of the commune was extremely precarious and highly dependent on the roadway's fluctuations. This dependency led them to develop a cargo cult of the road.

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Status
Released
Budget
$2K
Box office
$10K
Language
Russian
  • magic
  • retrofuturism
  • visual anthropology
  • cargo truck
  • cargo cult
  • cosmism
  • jean rouch hommage
  • russian unofficial art

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Produced in

Russia

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • PremiereYale School of Art19 Apr 2013
  • United KingdomGB

    • PremiereHayward Gallery - Burning News: Recent Art from Russia14 Sept 2014
  • FranceFR

    • Premiere31st Jean Rouch Film Festival - https://www.comitedufilmethnographique.com/jeudi-15-novembre-2012-thursday-15th-november/#ABEZ15 Nov 2012
  • GermanyDE

    • PremiereKino der Kunst - https://kinoderkunst.de/en/artist/venkov-dimitri/26 Apr 2013
    • PhysicalGo East Film Festival - https://www.filmfestival-goeast.de/en/filme/mad-mimes/11 Apr 2014
  • IranIR

    • PremierePejman Foundation9 Nov 2018
  • NetherlandsNL

    • PremiereDe Hallen Haarlem - https://www.franshalsmuseum.nl/en/event/the-voice-and-the-chorus/5 Sept 2013
  • RussiaRU

    • PremiereNRMAMM15 Jun 2012

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Mad Mimes was released on 15 June 2012.

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    Dimitri_Venkov

    6/11/2023

    10/10

    Dimitri Venkov in conversation with Alexandra MacGilp for Cannibal Manifest exhibition catalogue AM: What inspired The Mad Mimes and how did it develop while you were making it? ​ DV: One of the lasting impressions of my formative years was a discovery of Jean Rouch’s ethno-fictions. There I saw a narrative mode that was neither documentary nor fiction, rather it went back and forth between them creating…

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