Time’s tricks: fantasy and reality in Kirill Serebrennikov’s Petrov’s Flu first published by Klassiki Time moves in mysterious ways in Petrov’s Flu, written and directed by Kirill Serebrennikov (The Student, 2016; LETO, 2018). It opens – as indeed it ends – with a smiling conductress (Irina Vybornova) on a Yekaterinburg trolleybus in the build-up to…
Kirill Sokolov on the exuberant cinephilia behind his debut WHY DON’T YOU JUST DIE! first published by SciFiNow magazine, in early 2020 You studied physics to a postgraduate level. How do you get from studying physics to filmmaking? Do they intersect in any way? Kirill Sokolov: It took around five years, because I always was…
Beyond North America: three horror hotspots from the last decade first published by Sight & Sound, Novemeber 2020 Horror’s mainstream is, broadly, North American, dominating our theatres and setting the genre’s rules. Yet it is often at the margins beyond these borders where the rules are broken, where pioneering exploratory work is done, and where…