

Mad Mimes
2012 · Movie · 30m
DocumentaryScience FictionFantasyMysteryComedyHistory
"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."
Overview
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.
Ratings
TMDB
10/10
Key crew
- Dimitri VenkovScreenplay
- Dimitri VenkovDirector
Cast
- Daniil ZinchenkoTribesman
- Pavel GrozinRoad worker
- Alexander EvangelyAnthropologist
- Alexandra ObukhovaHistorian of religions
- Arseny ZhilyaevAnthropologist
- Oksana SarkisyanSociologist
- Mikhail MaximovTribesman
- Varvara GevorgizovaTribeswoman
- Tanya LazarevaTribeswoman, mother of two
- Anton NikolaevPizdariki (Voice)
- Andrey GolovinPoliceman
- Maximillian RoganovRoad engineer
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Themes
magicretrofuturismvisual anthropologycargo truckcargo cultcosmismjean rouch hommagerussian unofficial art























