Mad Mimes
“The film is a study of the mimetic practices in a fictitious self-marginalized commune located next to the Moscow Ring Road, a highway that marks the boundaries of the Russian capital.”
An anthropological study of a cargo cult in a fictitious self-marginalized commune, which existed next to the Moscow Ring Road - a highway that marks the boundaries of the Russian capital - and survived mainly on roadside trash. Although the road provided for their basic needs, the existence of the commune was extremely precarious and highly dependent on the roadway's fluctuations. This dependency led them to develop a cargo cult of the road.
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Cast
21 people
Daniil Zinchenko
Tribesman
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Silver Heads
America
Pavel Grozin
Road worker
Alexander Evangely
Anthropologist
Alexandra Obukhova
Historian of religions
Arseny Zhilyaev
Anthropologist
Oksana Sarkisyan
Sociologist
Mikhail Maximov
Tribesman
Varvara Gevorgizova
Tribeswoman
Tanya Lazareva
Tribeswoman, mother of two
Anton Nikolaev
Pizdariki (Voice)
Andrey Golovin
Policeman
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Maximillian Roganov
Road engineer
Dimitri Venkov Director · Margarita Kariuk Cinematographer
Worldwide gross $10K · Budget $2K · United States release April 19, 2013
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Budget
$2,000
Worldwide gross
$10,000
Gross vs. budget
5.0×
Production
VVERKH!
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Russia
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Original language
Russian
Spoken on screen
Russian · Volapük
Release dates
Russia · June 15, 2012
Premiere · MAMM
United States · April 19, 2013
Premiere · Yale School of Art
France
November 15, 2012 · Premiere · 31st Jean Rouch Film Festival - https://www.comitedufilmethnographique.com/jeudi-15-novembre-2012-thursday-15th-november/#ABEZ
Germany
April 26, 2013 · Premiere · Kino der Kunst - https://kinoderkunst.de/en/artist/venkov-dimitri/
April 11, 2014 · Physical · Go East Film Festival - https://www.filmfestival-goeast.de/en/filme/mad-mimes/
Iran
November 9, 2018 · Premiere · Pejman Foundation
Netherlands
September 5, 2013 · Premiere · De Hallen Haarlem - https://www.franshalsmuseum.nl/en/event/the-voice-and-the-chorus/
United Kingdom
September 14, 2014 · Premiere · Hayward Gallery - Burning News: Recent Art from Russia
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