ℕᗩℜℂozE ᔕuℬtᒪe ᒪitEᔕ: April 2016

Dear #filmmakers,

I’d like to introduce myself on your stoner scape. Believe me. I was born in Moscow to a Ukrainian family, immigrated to the UK when I was 18, where I reside ever since. Divorced. I exhibited my works at Exploding Cinema in the Cinema Museum, London and Bluescreen Films at Cube Independent Microplex, Bristol. I studied Multiculturalism and Ethnicity, dropped out to join the projectionist movement.

Those who ascribed to Pink8 Manifesto, I’m writing to you from a train (Delhi - Mathura Junction). We all know how hard it is to achieve in the film arts and especially carry underground values of counter-culture and similar rebellious movements in the true philosophy and spirit of punk. Being a migrant and an indie TV Freelancer in the colony and in the empire. The limit is breaking into the mainstream success and remaining true and real. Sign-up to my social media and come to forth coming events. Time is of the essence.

At the point of writing this I realise that this might be a much needed conclusion for my blog.

Twenty second of March, two thousand sixteen.

D1 SKCHDB

@narcsat #narcsat

Interview to Straight Jacket Guerrilla Film Festival: 1/4/16

What does your film express about your generation?

What does this film festival express about our generation? The video curation process is hard. We simply don’t have time for it. My spirit documents a London Myth. For Barthes, whose books I read in the uni library Myths aren’t just the traditional stories we tell; there are myths everywhere, within out everyday lives. According to UnionDocs Centre for Documentary Arts in New York a movie is an ‘Inductive Thread’. Inductive Thread weaves together short works in film, video, radio, photography, written essay, and live performance. This festival is important because it doesn’t send you notifications, we made everything possible so that our works are seen by less people. We went Underground. Straight Jacket Guerrilla Film Festival is the Film Festival that matters today.

My feature narrative doc on graffiti and drug addiction is a project on political representation of citizens of migrant origin. I am plutocratic British-Russian of Ukrainian descent. Ethnicity is permanent. I belong to the Gen Y and the central text that defines us is ‘The Adventure’ by Georg Simmel. We travel, we take photos, we tell poetry that’s why it is relevant. My movie pays special attention to the sound. I film on tape and I want to get the best moments on reel to show to others what I see.

‘Day in a Life 2016 LP low res’ is an assignment from Ridley Scott (Bladerunner) as it is a form dictated by Youtube, a gender discussion website that started in 2006 and changed our existence. Youtube Jah and the Internets are the Holy Grail of our generation and the youth wants to achieve success with their Internet personalities and ‘create content or maintaining data’.

In our time the feature film of Tarkovsky is being re-edited into a TV series. Director’s like Trier, Balabanov, Zvyagintsev, Loznitsa inspired me to work on the project that would bring out effervescent qualities of the medium I work in. Popular blogs depict vane self-involved people and totally ruin the magic of cinema.

My Youtube diary is a based in London company employee’s diary/manual. People’s search for protagonist stops here. It’s the discovery of new Aura. My debut feature is an instant college classic. Once you get into London you can’t just leave. I show the realm of London. Russian audience will know the soap opera Londongrad, which is an extended trailer for my work, even for my first film ‘Carnival’ (2014). Popular TV show prepares the general audience for my films, my trips, my alternative versions of the deep subliminal dream. All Russians want to live in London. It’s like that Disney cartoon ‘All Dogs Go Heaven’.

In my film I meet the Underground rap artists at their appearance and autograph session in Soho. They are behind this TV series. They are a big band that toured in Russian for some years and originated in London. It’s the pop culture of the city that makes living there so attractive, but these guys I edited out. It’s German-Russian Rap.

For my audience outside of post Soviet Space I created a special version without Russian Rap.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNWcj-tlS2I - short narrative version - I called it SP promo, SP for Short Play

What social circumstances lead you to make your new film?

Photo caption 3: St. Pauls Carnival, 2014My bourgeoisie background. I want to express the ways how we adapt to life in a foreign community. It’s a relevant topic for the Russia’s opulent classes who are moving out from the mother land, being concerned with how the country is run, with the fact that our military complex is active and the price of oil reached historic lows. My digital nomad deep dive creates an opposition voice to Putin’s presidency, which is what our democracy really lacks. I also call to use as much technology as possible and I doubt that our government really knows the pressure and demands of tech today. In India where people wipe their ass with left hand people make supply chain software for Aerospace industry.

Putin’s teachings on stagnation forced me into migration. When I was 16 I already understood that I will not be able to take the life I want because of the oppressive regime. There are many paradoxes. Who is Mr. Putin and who is the leader of Russia’s government administration to the elite of London? Who are the people of London to the leader of Russia’s government administration? Russian capital is leaving the country because of lack of anti-nationalism.

I was stuck. The day before the shooting I went to watch Eisenstein at the Close-Up and got drunk on red wine with a group of filmmakers who I met in the cinema hall during the seance. I came there again on the next day with a camera. I got a powerful motivation from meeting those guys, luckily there were events on my calendar that I could show to the audience.

I was ok with the drug scene and smoked skunk for a year almost everyday and consumed a lot of nicotine acid, and that took a lot of my energy. A useless human life. It was a long term depression caused by what the government does to us, think about my psycho-social world, it’s completely fucked up. Everyday think as you wake up, today I am misfortunate to have woken up. I am Dead, I’ve wasted a precious human life, I’m not going anywhere, I am not going to use those perks, because I don’t feel like I deserve them. All my efforts to develop myself, to expand my consciousness, to stay present, to achieve enlightenment for the benefit of all beings is wasted. Some things I should not speak of and can’t show my Anger. Like Kenneth Anger going to explore the psychedelic in the visual dimension. Anger is an Energy.

I was unaware of the subtle hypnotic trance in which I was operating, robotically accepting things as ‘The Way It Is’, seldom venturing outside of my own being to discover true feelings, emotions, and fulfil needs. I ask the audience if they can see that the drawing is a concave line. That the story about a story about a story can become cult. Me, working for a silent mag.. I have to play it nice. I’m dealing with issues, they keep on building up.

Extraction of our oil is the most expensive one and it is not of the best quality. That’s why we are fracking the bombs at Syria from cannon to make Turkey hit Chechnya.

What do you think about the Pink8 Manifesto and Punk Cinema?

It’s almost a genre of it’s own.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FD2Sntt84YM - longer version for Russian viewer.

Manifesto is inspiring. It’s a portal for raw memes and art. I learned about DIY at a HcX pub in Camden Town in late autumn 2014. I was looking for a person who’d take me to a squat. He’d almost put me down.

After that I started filming more and learned about Exploding Cinema. Meeting two orphans at Exploding Cinema screening in Nunhead (July, 2015) was another powerful motivation.

I published my first DVD at the 20th Century Flicks in Bristol in August 2015 and sent it Disposable Film Festival 2015 (San-Francisco). They selected HOBODREAM a film made entirely on iPhone4 for the Exploding Cinema screening at the Cinema Museum, London. That is one of my biggest breakthroughs to date.

My forthcoming vlog episodes The Improved Rural Life and The Figure Of Britannia are in accordance with Pink8 too, but this time I’m not doing graffiti in London (dangerous activity). I had to explore a legal loophole to make it happen.

Today Visual artists from places like ICA, FLUX video art, Soho video houses, Genero TV and small production houses like Mono Grande create so much boring stuff on Vimeo. The same applies to many Youtube vlogs, like Zoella. Content on Mubi, Netflix, NowTV has the same qualities of tired repetition of meaningless actions. It dumbs down the viewer, and there is no reason to watch it and hard to avoid. Punk infusion in cinema is a gulp of fresh air.

I have lot’s of conflicting emotions about the fact that these people live shamelessly and continue to create. I love expressing myself and I actually have something to say. Pink8 Manifesto motivated me to experiment in video, I levelled up. It was a very important period in my life and I hope that I will be able to take the next level and write a good script and sell it to Amazon Studios. DIY gave me the will to live, but as an individual project I think I exhausted myself.

Digging through the materials from the Straight Jacket Guerrilla and other British independent, underground, experimental, protest, cult, Avante - Garde, D.I.Y., Artist’s film I found Duncan Reekie’s film that I watched in a lobby of a Zostel in Pahar Ganj with a Dutch beauty of Indian roots whose relatives arrived into Europe through the West Indies. Britishness and London’s adventures of typical idiots with a gun in a Pre-Tarantino Post-Structuralist Noir shocker made in 1989 was pretty damn good. I like that period for British Cinema. Many classics came out.

What’s next for you?

Collaborative projects. With 2500+ followers on Meetup I started to develop a cult following and that is quite exciting for me, to get into the PR game. I’m setting up an event together with a Partner Manager of Russia, Ukraine and CIS at Youtube on vlogging at Lahore Kebab House. I see it as a blog battle. Organising a screening of a contemporary art house horror is another task. A movie by Cosmotropia de Xam from Phantasma Disques, we’ve already arranged that for 14th of May through their Bigcartel shop. Please join me.

I have a lot of pressure on me at the moment and I need to complete the projects that I started. I’d love to join a collective zine and get a commission on Tumblr. Travelling through the circuit of independent festivals would be fun. I want to apply for a job at VICE as a Russian speaking producer. I need to put in many hours with Google Analytics, promote my vlog and get to monetisation on Youtube, Iconosquare, Vimeo +. I have to sort out my private collection of photos. I need to back up my mac.

I’d like to make video GIFs that would be sold through Arrow Videos label. I’m doing Narcoze Subtle Lites: Broadcasting Agency and Publishing House, a brand owned by Rarog Lift LTD

What do you need to know about the film?

D.I.Y. is an individual work, that makes the quality almost deliberately low, success hard and aesthetics fabulous.

I am a product of my city, it’s my voice, my vision. I want to see more anarchic magic of the city. I want to be heard and seen in the squats, pubs and festivals of the Albion.

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