The Horse, the Violin and a Little Bit Nervous (1991)
Irina Evteeva’s debut quickly became a kind of manifesto for the one-room experimental studio: it defines classification by interweaving animation, appropriated footage, feature and documentary to form a unique whole, a film that rushes backwards into the future, thereby re-inventing Futurism. Mayakovskiy is the star; his occasional presence holds together a film driven by the sound, the beat, of his poetry. Evteeva develops a dramatic structure of flaring, fading, being from light: violin strings become rays, quivering dull yellow spots, pictures. The plot assails the material from which it derives energy from material. History, growling and roaring, finds its form.
Director: Irina Evteeva
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Georgi Traugot as |
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Margarita Bychkova as |
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Semyon Furman as |
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Boris Cherdyntsev as |
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Tatyana Reshetnikova as |
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Anatoli Petrov as |
| Directing | Irina Evteeva | Director |
| Camera | Genrikh Marandzhyan | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Dmitri Shostakovich | Music |
| Art | Irina Evteeva | Production Design |
| Writing | Irina Evteeva | Writer |
| Sound | Algirdas Paulavicius | Music |
| Editing | Tamara Denisova | Editor |