Alexey Evstigneev

Postsovetskaya simfoniya, 11:15 min, Color, Stereo, Russian Federation, 2022

Alexey Evstigneev was born and grew up in Shatura, Russia. In 2020 he graduated from the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (also known as VGIK), the Documentary Filmmaking Course of  Viktor Lisakovich, and Alexey Geleyn. His student film The Track premiered at Dok Leipzig in 2019.

If architecture is “frozen music”, then the facades of houses are its score. Exploring the architecture of the post-Soviet space, we are trying to understand how this centuries-old symphony could sound and look, and most importantly, what kind of conflict it speaks to the modern viewer.