Cruel Illness of Men (1989)

Жестокая болезнь мужчин

Under a score of abbreviated drones and freeform woodwinds, the Aleinikov brothers cut together a series of images, found and made, that look unfailingly bleak, industrial or both bleak and industrial: disused factories, clunky utilitarian machinery, strings of unsettlingly young violinists, old-timey group portraits with everyone's eyes scratched out. Interspersed are less overtly sinister but somehow eerier snatches of action, like a circling brood of crude stop-motion mice or a bunch of little wooden people chopping wood and sawing logs, all differently affected by the vagaries time and the physical world foist onto film stock.

Date of release
1989-12-28
TMDB
4.7 / 10 (3)
Runtime
10m
Genres
Drama
Director
Igor Aleynikov, Gleb Aleynikov

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