This is not a film adaptation of the novel, but rather a film adaptation of Andrei Bely's writing process and his neurotic falling in love. I was interested in the film as a process of its becoming, the performativity of the relations ...See moreThis is not a film adaptation of the novel, but rather a film adaptation of Andrei Bely's writing process and his neurotic falling in love. I was interested in the film as a process of its becoming, the performativity of the relations initiated by this process, and how reality penetrates the pronounced artificiality of cinema. The real directors here are the actresses, and the director becomes the only actor.
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