Mad Mimes

  • Documentary
  • Science Fiction
  • Fantasy
  • Mystery
  • Comedy
  • History
6/15/2012
30

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.

Revenue:
$10,000
Budget:
$2,000

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  • Dimitri_Venkov

    Dimitri Venkov in conversation with Alexandra MacGilp for Cannibal Manifest exhibition catalogue

    AM: What inspired The Mad Mimes and how did it develop while you were making it?

    DV: One of the lasting impressions of my formative years was a discovery of Jean Rouchs ethno-fictions. There I saw a narrative mode that was neither documentary nor fiction, rather it went back and forth between them creating  uncertainty in regards with the nature of the material and the film itself. Half-consciously I ended up reproducing this model in my film where I tried to present a credible situation at first and then push the limits of plausibility without completely destroying it, without slipping into mockumentary mode where everything beco...

    June 11, 2023

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