Danila Gulin was born in Moscow in 1982. In order to finance his studies at the Institute of Contemporary Art in the department TV and radio journalism, he worked in a bookstore for 5 years. In the fourth year he dropped out of his studies to pursue a career as a music video director. He directed music videos for several indie bands, including Tequilajazzz, Naive, Amatory, ##### and My Lenin. Sergey Batishchev, also known as SILA, who later formed the band Teenage Arab and started the label Not For Fun Records, was playing in My Lenin at the time. Sergey Batishchev was born in Moscow in 1984. He studied journalism at the prestigious Moscow State University. In collaboration with Danila, he made his graduation film about the opposition rally. The concept of the film consists of 3 different perspectives on the events: the first is in the genre of "no commentary", the second in the context of the Renaissance and the third in the video context of eight-bit games [ https://vimeo.com/615077 ]. After graduating, Sergey worked in advertising as a copywriter and most recently as a creative director, sometimes overlapping with Danila, who was also working in advertising at the time. In 2013 Sergey decided to leave Russia with his friend Ivan Pribylov, with whom they formed the band Teenage Arab, the experimental hip-hop project ACIDHOP. A and recorded material for In 2015, Danila was invited as a universal specialist to help set up a video production company in Sri Lanka. He made a film that was screened at festivals - "Learn to play the game" [ https://vimeo.com/263233095 ]. Danila edited the video and started writing the music. Sergey had been living in nearby Thailand (on the island of Koh Phangan, where he has his own small studio overlooking the ocean) for four years at this point. At the first opportunity, Danila flew to Thailand where they composed the soundtrack and finished the audio. As a reward, Sergey asked for a video for his music project, Teenage Arab. Danila returned to Russia. He tried to get elected to the city council, got married and divorced, while continuing to participate in peaceful rallies. In 2018, the first version of the film was released. There was footage from a rally - unofficially called "He is not our king" - on May 5, 2018. The finale of that version was rather weak, but there were many more opportunities to film. After the hot Moscow summer of 2019 with a record number of arrests, Danila managed to capture a lot of captivating footage - enough to complete the film "Cosmonauts" with music by Teenage Arab.