Ivan Yakushev

In a small modern city, a game called "Mad racing quest" begins. All the residents of the city receive messages in social. networks to participate in the game. The winner receives the money. The criminal situation is increasing dramatically. There is a series of murders and car accidents. The FSB and the Interior Ministry are trying hard to prevent the growing chaos in the city. The game includes young people, Anton and Zhenya, who are opposed to greedy money local crime. The organizers of the game, using the excitement of players, begin to punch them with their foreheads. The quest become more complicated with each passing day, and the money prize increases. Only at the end of the game, the young people who have reached the end realize that this whole game is a trap, the purpose of which is to search for people capable of solving a complex puzzle. However, having solved it, they become unnecessary witnesses. Now their life is under threat.

Video by Alexandra Karelina and Ivan Yakushev refers to Dostoevsky's deep interest in borderline states—primarily death, but also lethargy. In Bobok, the narrator, out of boredom, goes to a funeral of a distant relative. Later, taking thought, he lies down on a tombstone and begins to hear the dead, who continue to talk to each other as if by inertia. The authors of the film translate imagery and tone of this story into a ritual action. Abstract space of fabrics, industrial materials, and human body transforms and disintegrates, blurring the line between living and inanimate.

Video by Alexandra Karelina and Ivan Yakushev refers to Dostoevsky's deep interest in borderline states—primarily death, but also lethargy. In Bobok, the narrator, out of boredom, goes to a funeral of a distant relative. Later, taking thought, he lies down on a tombstone and begins to hear the dead, who continue to talk to each other as if by inertia. The authors of the film translate imagery and tone of this story into a ritual action. Abstract space of fabrics, industrial materials, and human body transforms and disintegrates, blurring the line between living and inanimate.