Аn animated video 360, based on the poem by Joseph Brodsky, where you can follow the life of a tugboat in the port of St. Petersburg.
to those, who are not with us anymore
Directed by Polina Minaeva, St. Petersburg pictured by Vasily Krasnikov Music by Anton Alekseevsky Voice talent Pavel Artemiev
I’ve got to know and love Brodsky poetry because of my aunt. This poem always made me cry. Crying, I had absolutely no time to realize this project, thought the idea of creating a 360 video haunted me for a long time. The summer of 2020 was especially hard, many nearest people passed away, so did my aunt. I felt that’s time for this project dedicated to the theme of leaving.
My aunt Lada was like this small tugboat, dressed in orange. She was a teacher leading her student into the sea of life. They had to take their own paths and part to different jobs and countries, but they always could pass the school by to say hi. She was there till this summer.
Let’s say, she’s now heading to another wonderful place. While we’ll remember what she gave us. I became an animation artist and created this project in her memory.
When Victor Hugo said To love another person is to see the face of God, and Dostoevsky said To love someone means to see them as God intended them and The more you succeed in loving, the more you’ll be convinced at the existence of God and the immortality of your soul.
[Id: Drawing of Korovyev and Behemoth from the novel Master and Margarita. Behemoth is in his human form, lounging with a bottle. He is a large man with dark hair and beard and cat like yellow eyes. Korovyev is a slight man with cracked glasses. he is standing behind the sofa. ]¨
Listened through Master and Margarita over the summer, and loved it a lot. So here are the two assistants of Satan.
“It wasn’t the New World that mattered…Columbus died almost without seeing it; and not really knowing what he had discovered. It’s life that matters, nothing but life — the process of discovering, the everlasting and perpetual process, not the discovery itself, at all.”
The Idiot is one of Dostoyevsky’s most tragic novels I’ve read so far. While in Crime and Punishment we observe the…
“The man who lies to himself can be more easily offended than anyone else. You know it is sometimes very pleasant to take offense, isn’t it? A man may know that nobody has insulted him, but that he has invented the insult for himself, has lied and exaggerated to make it picturesque, has caught at a word and made a mountain out of a molehill–he knows that himself, yet he will be the first to take offense, and will revel in his resentment till he feels great pleasure in it.” ―Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
[text ID: Don’t let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them.]
“What I am to do? I ask myself, and look upwards. Above, there is also an infinite space. I look into the immensity of the sky and try to forget about the immensity below, and I really do forget it. The immensity below repels and frightens me; the immensity above attracts and strengthens me.”
