A lonely man chasing zero gravity in a machine—space dreams meet crushing reality.
The life of a middle-aged, lonely businessman is filled with children’s dreams about outer space. The only opportunity for him to go to stars is an MRT device, only there the hero feels zero gravity. In the attempt to find as effective a remedy for his “flights”, the man ends up in a deadlock.
Acting
Endaltsev's face holds galaxies of unspoken grief.
Direction
Vilenkin and Fomochkin turn clinical sci-fi into spiritual desolation.
Director
Denis Vilenkin
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Emerges from a wave of post-Soviet Russian shorts using speculative premises to interrogate masculine emotional poverty.
The 16-minute runtime is deliberate cruelty—you're left in the deadlock with him, no resolution offered.
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