Гимн Чуме (Hymn of the Plague)

Synopsis

In an old Soviet recording studio, a group of musicians attempt to record a composition based on Pushkin's play A Feast in Time of Plague. A weird and frightening phenomenon disturbs the musicians, who are unsure  whether it is the spirits of the past or an echo of a war. Nobody notices what is happening around them until the very end.

Biography and Films

Ataka51 (Moscow) is a film collective now based in Paris made up of Dimitri Gorbaty, Philipp Ivanov, Alex Epikhov, and Sergei Medvedev. They first met at the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (VGIK), while Gorbaty was at the Moscow School of New Cinema. Since its formation, the group has developed short films, videos and live performances. Its members see the world as an ever-expanding system of signs:  science, politics, reality and fiction and human and nonhuman objects.