Film
Self-portrait with someone else's eyes. (1989)
Annotation
A young man - an engineer by training, a poet by vocation, he worked as a guard in the fortress. His night journey through the dungeons and mazes, slow climb up the bell tower of the Cathedral becomes a magical journey amongst the shadows, in a dream that is not a dream, the sensation of another body...Reel №1
Corridors of the Peter and Paul Fortress.
A security guard's dummy.
Utility room with sink.
The watchman drinks water from the tap.
The watchman sweeps in the utility rooms.
A pile of different sculptures.
One of the cameras.
The man puts a mattress on the cot, sits down, takes off his shoes and lies down.
Close-up: feet, sneakers under the bed.
The watchman is standing at the window of the cell, jumping up, trying to see the yard.
The courtyard of the Peter and Paul Fortress.
The cell door slowly closes.
The cross on the spire.
Reflection of the spire in a puddle.
Locations
Leningrad
Reel №2
The watchman wanders through the labyrinths of the Peter and Paul Fortress in the semi-darkness.
Goes up the stairs.
Various utility rooms, corners of the fortress.
Antique bells on the floor.
The watchman rings the bells suspended from the pipe.
Removes one bell, goes up the stairs with it.
Locations
Leningrad
Objects
Peter and Paul FortressReel №3
The watchman climbs the stairs with a bell in his hands.
The watchman stands in the span of the bell tower.
Close-up: a pen clamped with three fingers.
The watchman is sitting in a dark corner and writing something.
The watchman swings the bell tongue with his hands.
The bell tower.
Suspends the bell brought.
Panorama of the bells.
Neva from the height of the bell tower of the Peter and Paul Fortress.
Locations
Leningrad