Bez Kulturi Net Nazii

Arriving to Grozny, Chechnya in April 2021 to shoot my feature documentary film Memory about the war I lived through as a child, I acutely felt the influence of the gigantic portraits present all over the rebuilt city. They depicted president Putin, Kadyrov Senior and Kadyrov Junior. They observed me from everywhere. They penetrated my thoughts. It was almost impossible to believe and accept. In parallel to the production of Memory, together with our DoP, we set out to capture the feeling of totalitarianism that these portraits conveyed and we did this through a distorted lens intentionally. We got up at 4 in the morning and shot through the window of a moving car because such actions put us under threat of persecution. We understood that we were documenting the time of the birth of fascism in Russia.http://www.noculturenonation.com