About something important
We often talk about shallow things, chatting just to have a chat, talking without any significant meaning, while truly precious words never come out. The nameless hero of our story, during a loud party, resolved to quit meaningless chatter and say something really important, but there was no one around him willing to listen.
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Gosha EvdokimovDirector
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Gosha EvdokimovWriter
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Alexander VorozheikinWriter
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Petr MordvintsevWriter
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Mikhail MarizovProducer
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Mitya RafikovProducer
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Elen DemirchyanProducer
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Lera MorgunovaProducer
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Artem ShevchenkoKey Cast
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Andrej ChekinKey Cast
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Aleksandra MoshkovaKey Cast
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Vladimir MoshechkovKey Cast
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Elena TyanKey Cast
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Darya MaksimovaKey Cast
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Polina SazonovaKey Cast
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Polina KupriyanovaKey Cast
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Alina UtegushevaKey Cast
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LenKey Cast
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Project Title (Original Language):О чём-то важном
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Project Type:Experimental, Short
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Runtime:6 minutes 11 seconds
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Completion Date:January 18, 2023
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Production Budget:7,000 USD
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Country of Origin:Russian Federation
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Country of Filming:Russian Federation
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Language:English, Russian
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Shooting Format:Digital
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Aspect Ratio:1.78
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Film Color:Color
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First-time Filmmaker:No
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Student Project:No
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International Short Film Festival PsarokokaloAthens,
Greece
February 6, 2023
Music Video -
DELETE TVLondon
United Kingdom
October 11, 2023
Narrative Shorts -
KorocheKaliningrad
Russian Federation
August 8, 2023
Вне конкурса -
BAIQONYR Film FestivalAlmati
Kazakhstan
August 9, 2023
Selection -
TAKT Film FestNovi Sad
Serbia
November 9, 2023
Selection -
Short+Sweet Film Festival EssexSouthend-on-Sea
United Kingdom
I'm 31 years old. I graduated as a graphic designer, and had been working in advertising agencies as art-director and creative group head. In December 2018 I shot my first work, in 2019 actively began to develop as film director and made many interesting projects, including World of tanks with Chuck Norris as a guest actor. At the moment, in addition to advertising I am writing script for comedy series and moving to feature films and series.
Project took off in May 2022. It all started, when I began to notice, that while chatting with my family and friends we discussed only some meaningless stuff, letting alone current events and things which really matters.
We discussed weather, gardening and how delicious was the sort of tomatoes my mom has grown. But at this chatter, the only thing stuck in my head was that my life and my plans were ruined. And not only mine.
I realized, that my parents suffered job difficulties, growing uncertainty of what life is going to be, because the circumstances reached us all. And I saw they shared my anxiety, nevertheless we kept chatting about nonsense. Like we were frightened to speak out what is important.
And that is how my story “about something important’ was born. We often talk about shallow things, chatting just to have a chat, talking without any significant meaning, while truly precious words never come out. Nowadays it is not accepted to share your problems insted of tis we prefer to hide behind the mask of happiness and harmony, but it is so far from the truth.
Even if we take into consideration recent events, my story is much deeper and every conflict is a matter of people’s misunderstanding behind it. And giving this, the story is not an up-to-the-minute thing, every edgy moment of it can be taken and adopted in every time being in any language. The only thing that is changing is context. Each and every one of us faced this barrier of being unable to say something important. Being unable to speak one’s heart to the relatives and be heard, even if you cry it out.
The message here, is that if you what to say something important, you should stop talking about nothing.
The thing is, I like that this story goes without any word spoken, the only tool here is subtitles. And because of that, every viewer can put something personal inside it, put their very own thoughts and feelings. This story - is a personal story of each.
Throughout this project I, of course, tried to uncage my own mind, reveal things, that are important to me personally. And I really hope that every viewer is going to see its own reflection here, going to see something really important.
Interesting fact: during the whole project we can hear non-binding chats here and there, mostly filled with unmeaningful sentences like ‘thats all right’, etc. Moreover, all over the place background was scribbled with phrases: ‘words, which have no meaning’. By doing that I tried to fill surrounding area with unrecognizable audio and vision noise, which plays on contrast with protagonist.