The Leaving

Russia, 1999, 16 mm, 6 min.

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Actor: Yevgeni Souhonenkov

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Everyone has to be ready to appear before God, or it is irrevocably too late. My Lord! Save our guilty souls! Do not desert us! According to the short statement by the artist.(Rotterdam Film Festival 1999).

The leaving.

Suburb, snow-bound desert, eternal pain & grief in Human`s eyes. How can Christ leave this world, if any Protestant knows, that He had loved us so much, that got a death on the cross for our salvation? "So, guys, before put your full nature on the film, read the Bible, please. You see, the deal is your ideas contradict all christian doctrines. Jesus Christ is here, He hadn`t left us, & will never leave, life is wonderful, and what about you - you are complete fools. Because you make unright cinema, instead of лить waterfalls of happy tears on the screen. Ha! God is leaving! Ne-ver! Hm, we & God know it exactly!" Yes, He would really never leave us. Just... If we turn Him out ourselves. And we do! He is - with us, and we are... with who? With He? But so, why here are more & more violence, loneliness, indidifirence, tears (not happy, as it`s advised) in this world? Why does our life becames more difficult every day? Ha, we are too blessed, and so do more & more evil. Maybe, it is high time to stop talking "Art is sin", & instead of it look at reality, sweet boys & girls, and with a great attention. We are the generation of runaways, grown by obsolote methods. Isn`t it strange to suppose, that when we come to God, we became the other people, automatically? No, we can`t change at minute that had been formed for years. What a bigots we are, if we can affirm, that we are with Christ! And these people, "brothers & sisters", that potter about. Disturb! One needs money, and not only 0,5$. Other one asks to help for housekeeping, taking away from devout thoughts. And some of they, I mean these people, don`t want no hear, nor respect, nor know us at all. Of course, we are educated & clever, & know, that we have to love our enemies. Ah, we can`t. Interested, why? And any day. Seems to me, I know, what`s the case. The reason is people surround us. If they, bastards, weren`t near, we had been already become the saints! But each man is made by God`s similarity. I mean, there`s a portrayal of Christ in every one. In every man, that we don`t want to know. "I knock at every door", said Christ, but not every door is opened for Him. And so, He stays alone, in the suburb of a large city, where is no place for Him, looks at us and grieve. Because He is not be able to change anything before the citizens call Him. A free will - is an original gift, given to mankind. But everyone desides himself how to use it. Christ never saves forcely. Yes, He will never leave us, but also He will not break into our hearts, using the set of skeleton-keys. He had come. He had been knocking in the doors for a long time. Did anybody open? No, & so He walked in the snow-bound desert, on the garbage camp, because nobody will turn Him out of there. He had been turning out for ages, He is been tutned out now. It may happen any day, He`ll has to leave us not in experience film, but in reality, because there won`t be real christians in the world. And there will be the end of time, that we are all affraid of. So maybe we will better stop hunting for еheresy, and try to became little kind, mersy, tolerant & attentive to each other, even to heretics и atheists. "Theologic" fighting on the level "fool-fool youself" won`t lead to something good. Because they are the deal of ignorant in theology people, which are able not to explain what`s the case, but compromise Christianity in opponent`s eyes. So I offer to consider "The leaving" a possible metaphor, & with all our will try not to realise it.
N. Legkova
(translated by D. Rutazveli)


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About a some cinematographic miracle.

Remember, what do you tell somebody about a just reviewed film? Usually you retell a plot, talk over the actors; maybe you are delighted with special effects, ets... But a strange sensation leaves which can't be told over the mouth. This feeling bears inside you and, at last, determines your attitude to a film.
I'm gonna tell to spite those dismal scientists who suppose that a cool mind is only source of all man's senses - this isn't how matters stand. For instance, even a macaco doesn't herself out of a pleasure to see a cinematograph. And she has not a big brain but she usually enjoys. Why ? I think, there is anything which exists besides a plot, actors, special effects. Or rather, it isn't a habitual perception of these conceptions. I call this "anything" - "a screen emanation" (S.E.). And it isn't my gibberish, but it is reality. More-over, this process can be measured. True, few men who can make it must have a peculiar inner energy for it. Unfortunately, I haven't this one. But I had saw one day this delightful fairy - play with attractive wizard in main role. I was bewitched...
So the S.E. determines a main impression of a film. Sometimes, the film may be blameless from point of view of the directing and other things but leaving a cinematheater you feel yourself like a wet hen. You sick and tired without, it seems to you, real reasons for it. But if you can know value of S.E., you'll know with interest that it is negative. It's possible to make a scale for a S.E.- meter but, I think, it doesn't matter. It is enough to know that this value may be positive and negative.
If it is positive we feel a weird lightness and fantastic ecstasy even if some film is a muck in all another parameters. These films are very useful in therapy of madnesses, psychopathies, hydrophobias (they say...) and same troubles. So if you are psycho or even drunkard you can be cured straight at a cinema!
What did I make this article for ? I don't know. But this aspect of cinematographic miracles needed in explanation.
By the way, Frolov's films have a positive S.E. energy. It's wonderful, isn't it ?

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