

Dreams about Putin
Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, many Russians have started having dreams about their president and sharing them on social media. More than a thousand dreams about Putin have now been recorded and posted on public platforms. In Dreams About Putin, a selection of these dreams have been brought to life using Unreal Engine, a 3D graphics program for creating scenes for computer games. In this exciting experiment with form, the animations are complemented by rare archival footage of the Russian president. The dreams are related by a narrator, and their “translation” into 3D scenes is not literal; likewise, the archival footage has been lightly edited. The result is sometimes dryly comic, sometimes absurdist, sometimes disturbing, and sometimes even hopeful. A series of bizarre but therefore oddly familiar nightmares as a vision of Putin’s Russia.
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- Russian
- short film
- documentary
- idfa official selection
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Belgium, Hungary, Portugal
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NetherlandsNL
- PremiereIDFA10 Nov 2023
TaiwanTW
- PremiereChiayi International Art Doc Film Festival17 Mar 2024
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Dreams about Putin was released on 10 November 2023.
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