Wellspring

It is sometimes very difficult to distinguish dreams from reality. What is a dream?
Oblivion or flight? A dream is in common with love, which, without a choice, can suddenly take possession of everyone.
Love is invisibly present in everything: in the burning of a candle, the trembling of a petal, the whisper of the wind or awe
butterfly wings ... Failure to nowhere, fall into eternity, infinity soaring ...
A layer of problems and everyday accumulations of worries, suffering, expectations.
But suddenly: immersion in oneself, in one’s essence, in one’s original.
And separation: dizziness, drop, soaring, immersion in the freshness of dew, moisture, spring ...
Finally: enlightenment, purification, clarity of thought, the joy of existence.
And then: flight again, merging and dissolving in eternity!

  • Dmitri Frolov
    Director
  • Dmitri Frolov
    Writer
  • Dmitri Frolov
    Producer
  • Sergey Oskolkov
    Music
  • Natalya Surkova
    Key Cast
    "Girl"
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Short
  • Runtime:
    9 minutes 5 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    June 7, 2010
  • Production Budget:
    300 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Russian Federation
  • Shooting Format:
    16 mm
  • Aspect Ratio:
    4:3
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Once a Week Online Film Festival

    United States
    January 7, 2020
    Official Selection
  • Direct Monthly Online Film Festival

    United States
    February 7, 2020
    Official Selection, TOP 10 of Week (4th Rank) of 5th Week, 6th Week, 8th Week of 2020
  • PICASSO EINSTEIN BUDDHA International Film Festival
    Rishikesh
    India
    September 27, 2020
    WINNER: BEST CONCEPT AWARD
  • Madras Independent Film Festival
    Chennai
    India
    December 4, 2020
    WINNERS - Best Experimental Film, Background Score
  • Global Monthly Online Film Competition (GMOFC)

    Canada
    January 15, 2021
    WINNERS: Best Experimental Film, Best Music Director
  • Indo Overseas Film Festival

    India
    August 28, 2021
    Best Picture and Best Director awards
  • Oasis Inter Continental Film Festival
    Mumbai
    India
    February 3, 2022
    Official Selection
Director Biography - Dmitri Frolov

Dmitri Frolov was born in Leningrad in 1966. He graduated from The Institute of Film & Television in 1990.
He worked at LENFILM Studios and then for the STV film company as a cameraman, in which capacity he has worked with many independent filmmakers.
He began to shoot his own films before the start of perestroika, in the early 1980s, He is one of the leaders of russian movievanguard in postperestroika age. He makes esthetic experiments connecting with return to dumb cinema on new level of movielanguage.
His films he shoots exclusively on film company "Svema". Even despite the fact that the film material, said the factory was left far in the Soviet past, and the film is not released, he revives the footage, while continuing to be faithful to the brand selected more child. When asked why, he replied that only "Svema" because of its unpredictability and non-uniformity of the emulsion, is the living material, which is able to convey the thrill of the character of life and even the seemingly inanimate object.

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