#russian sci-fi

A Visitor to a Museum (1989)

Directed by Konstantin Lopushanksiy

Doomsy’s Rating: 86/100

A gargantuan and enigmatic Russian sci-fi drone film, Visitor to a Museum is a nightmare of catastrophe and a fever dream of things to come. Lopushanskiy, the brilliant filmmaker behind such other dread-heavy mood tomes such as Dead Men’s Letters andRussian Symphony, creates a brooding and often-times oppressive atmosphere that suffocates the viewer whilst simultaneously hypnotizing them. A simple story of a post-cataclysmic society where the deformed are locked up like animals and intellectuals keep the world stagnated, we follow our lonely protagonist through scorched landscapes, decayed buildings, and tortured, monolithic mountains on the way to discovering the truth of the world before. Stark, unforgiving, and extraordinary, this is a terrifying cautionary tale about humankind’s fragile existence. Not for everyone, but sure as hell for the cynic inside me.