Arkadii Faustov

Mirage

This film uses humorous animated collages to explore the characters, actors, and work of the big studios. Set to a dialogue-like commentary and music evoking various cinematic genres, the film engages in a critique of the star system of cinema.

Show Us, We Are Interested

An outline about the place of television in the life of an ordinary Soviet citizen and about the huge growth in demand for TV sets before the program dedicated to Laughter Day.

A New Rout

Animated satirical sketch on the comfortability of urban public transport during rush hour.

The Last Leaf

Retelled and based on the short story by the American novelist O. Henry.

KVN

This is chronic of the lives of Kharkiv students whose stable life was suddenly disrupted by "KVN" (name and Russian abbreviation of the popular show Klub Vesyólykh i Nakhódchivykh? what translated in English as "Club of the Funny and Inventive"). A documentary collage consisting of images of fields and housing estates, young people having fun, or a university setting and staged scenes filled with humour and hyperbole, accompanied by a voiceover recalling propagandistic socio-critical documentaries.