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- The last concert of "Grazhdanskaya Oborona", held on February 9, 2008 in Yekaterinburg.
- Punk may have started in New York and London, but the extremely famous and famously extreme existential cult Siberian 80's band Grazhdanskaya Oborona (Civil Defense) and it's visionary leader Yegor Letov created something far more profound and sublime than the western rock-n-roll that had inspired it. The movie chronicles Letov's life from the 70s to the beginning of 90s (he died in 2008) and it seemingly follows every rock documentary convention: talking heads, concert video, and what looks like archival footage... Yet the interviews do not explain why the homemade recordings went viral to become the most important songs for so many completely different people well after the soviet reality to which they are supposedly addressed disappeared while the found footage and re-created live sequences are molded into something uncannily transcendent. The lo-fi-style and daring spirit of this visually elaborate film is authentic to its subject: so that the movie manages to capture the aura of the time and place and to convey the energy and significance of Letov's performances even to people who don't care about "punk".
- The film is supposed to be the first one dedicated to the music as an instrument for death exploration. The trigger for the plot was a discussion between Yevgeny Voronovskiy, composer, and Dmitriy Vasiliev, music enthusiast and journalist. They talked about 90's and 00's musicians who had worked with a theme of death. There is a need to highlight that they really worked. Many of them are dead now (suicide, drugs etc.). Sound artists have been swallowed by dangerous field of their studies. During the film one of the characters dies under unclear circumstances. As The real death emerges from the conversation about it, the film starts to transform, growing in characters, stories and contexts.
- 3 former prisoners speak of their time in Perm-36 gulag, now a museum. "Pilorama" reflects Russian society haunted by post-Soviet phantom pains. Red-brown activists denounce the existence of Perm-36, attracting support. Dark clouds gather.
- Two friends are walking with a camera in a forest and talking about cinematography.
- Two beautiful girls, a lake, trees, and an elderly gentleman casually fishing. What happens if the girls go mermaid?
- Composer Alexander Knaifel's work A Silly Horse consists of 15 stories by Vadim Levin for a singer and piano. Each story has its title, and these titles were used to find newsreel clips from the 20th century, which have nothing in common except that they are archive material. The music and the image magically combine to create the story of a boy who hears and sees only the words "Why dreams", which gave this film its name.
- Celebrating his fiftieth birthday, Sergei Pakhomov, known as Pakhom, made a pilgrimage along Tverskaya Street, walking along it fifty times. This performance and Pakhom's conversation with his mother formed the basis of the film.
- Dadaist poet who published some of the most beautiful books of the century, Ilia Zdanevich, aka Iliazd, is a little-known but major figure of modern art. Half a century after his death a young Russian agitator sets out on his trail.