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niffiwan

Surrealist animation from Uzbekistan

Jul 09, 2010 17:29

"Ready or Not, Here I Come" (literal title, "I Go Seek") was directed in 1992 by the mysterious Vlad Fesenko. The actual story of how the film got made is a bit unclear; in the film itself, only the logo of Moscow's Pilot animation studio appears, while animator.ru says that it was made by Uzbekfilm and the Cinema Technologies Group. My guess about ( Read more... )

uzbekfilm, 1990s, fesenko, pilot studio, subtitles

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roricat July 9 2010, 21:59:34 UTC

Great analysis. I really enjoyed this.

couple comments ext_235102 July 9 2010, 22:33:25 UTC

What we see at 4:30 is the view trough a theodolite. What the first character is holding is a graduated rule, used when engineers try to level ground for some construction.
And the huge jug looks like a steel furnace pouring molten metal.
Hope those can be useful to you, i actually lack the patience to enjoy surrealism.

Re: couple comments niffiwan July 10 2010, 07:08:31 UTC

Thank you; that does help. I don't know much about civil engineering. It also makes sense, because after the former "path" is gone, people have to build another... society. This really seems more and more like it could be about the collapse of the Soviet Union (represented by the train).

Re: couple comments ext_235102 July 10 2010, 22:37:06 UTC

I guess that's a safe bet for a 1992 production. Anyway, if it so, it's exceedingly opaque... If it was made 10 years earler i would interpret it differently, but it looks like the author whas somewhat stunned and perplexed himself.

Re: couple comments ext_235102 July 10 2010, 22:41:11 UTC

Music anonymous January 17 2011, 22:25:21 UTC

Does anyone know the name of the song at the end of the animation, during the sweeper scene and credits? It's been haunting me since I heard it, and I want to learn how to play in on the piano.

Anyone?

Re: Music niffiwan January 18 2011, 00:33:54 UTC

I think it was composed specifically for the film by composer Dmitri Yanov-Yanovsky (he is in the credits). If you Google his name, you'll find some biographical and contact information, so perhaps you can ask him about it.

It's not a very hard piece to learn by ear, though, I think...

Re: Music anonymous January 18 2011, 23:48:33 UTC

Thanks a lot. I know, it's not TOO hard to learn by ear, but I was wondering if there was more. Thanks again

Thank you for a great analysis. ext_2051657 July 4 2013, 20:57:06 UTC

I'm the son of Vlad Fesenko, this is a really good piece, I'd like to thank you from myself and my dad for writing this and paying attention to his work.

Re: Thank you for a great analysis. niffiwan November 5 2013, 08:14:43 UTC

You're very welcome. And wow, I never imagined that Vlad Fesenko would see what I wrote! Please let me know, did I get things right?

I'm still a bit unsure of the film's meaning between 4:30 and when the boy walks into the pages of the religious book - I see the symbols, but am not sure of what they all mean. What does the glass breaking represent? Why does the Torah pointer flick away a bug?

I'm also quite curious about how the film was made and why your father made it at the time!

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