Existence

Existence , 1990 (19:8)

Annotation: The documentary is about the tragic symbols and features of our existence, the use of Soviet cinema stereotypes.

Source description 1: The painter Vadim Vershkov is painting.
Paintings in the street among tree (space landscapes), a panorama of the wall.
The teen-age girl Irina Gavrilina is speaking.
A hypnosis session: I. Gavrilina is lying on the two chairs moved apart.
The Earth from the open space.
A fantastic painting by V. Vershkov, a panorama of the grass.
A panorama of an old tree.
A panorama of paintings by Vershkov, a leafless tree.
A newsreel of 1918-1921:
Lenin is speaking in the Red Square.

Pioneers are passing by the Lenin Mausoleum.
A panorama of plastic busts of Lenin, a worker’s hands.
Toy cars on the conveyor.
A hammer is striking a soft toy.
Parts of dolls, a worker’s hands.
Busts of Gorky, Lenin, Joseph Stalin.
A panorama of a stair leading to the basement.
V. Vershkov is carrying out a session of hypnosis, speaking.
Snow-covered mountains.
Water is dropping from icicles.
A molecule under the microscope.
Mikhail Gorbachev is speaking.
Boris Yeltsin is speaking.
A beggar is sitting in the street, they are sweeping the street nearby, coins in his things.
A rag market: they are selling vodka, shoes, female underwear.

Source description 2: Featured newsreel:
Frames from S. Eisenstein’s movie “Stachka” [“A Strike”].

Dispersal of the demonstration: a soldier and a police officer are leading the arrested man.
A panorama of a priest looking; people are walking with torches and paintings
Georgia. The city of Tbilisi, April 1989. Tanks are going by.
A panorama of dead bodies.
I. Gavrilina is speaking.
A prison, captives can be seen through the peephole.
Young peoples are shouting and waving their hands in the street.
A drug addict is making an injection.
Glass pots filled with banknotes.
A woman in the cabaret.
A panorama of people in a square in some oriental country chanting.
A mosque.
A woman is crying.
A meeting in the square.
A crashed car, a picture on at the car.
Dead bodies are being lifted.
A target.
They are shooting at a picture, it is tearing, a field can be seen behind the painting.
V. Vershkov is carrying out a session of hypnosis with I. Gavrilina.
I, Gavrilina is lying on the two chairs moved apart.
The Earth from the open space.
Molecules under the microscope; the ground as seen from through the airplane window.
A wooden sculpture of Christ.
A sculpture of Buddha.
An old book opened.

Academic A.D. Sakharov is speaking.

The communion ceremony in the church.
A priest in the church.
Muslims are praying.
A synagogue: interior, believers.
Baptism of a boy.
Buda monk is tolling a bell.
Hands are working on a bust of Lenin.
Part of dolls on the conveyor, hands of workers.
Toy tanks on a conveyor, hands of workers.
Pioneers are saluting.
A skull-like fountain.
They are ringing the bell.

A boy is sitting, a sportsman is exercising beside.
A girl is dancing.
A panorama of a junkyard, crushed doll lies.
A panorama of water, cane, a wooden head of the devil in the water.

Directors: Golubeva I.

Operators: Savchenko I.

Script writers: Degteva N.