The “Navinki Home Video” studio established by the “Navinki” satirical newspaper editorial staff (founded in 1998) as an experimental video maker’s group. In 2001 the first full-meter fiction production was released, the film “It Happened to a Lad”. After the “Navinki” newspaper was closed for “insulting the honor and the dignity of the President of Belarus” in May 2003, the creative group went on with the experiments at the interfaces between independent video art activity and the visual media. In the spring 2006, hot on the heels of the presidential elections the short-meter film-video comics “Goodbye, Batska!” was made.
"Goodbye Batska!"
After the President himself shaked the hand to Kalian’s dad during a pre-election meeting, the latter fell into drunken stupor. But the main problems for Kalian started when his father suddenly recovered – after the presidential elections, in a totally different, democratic country. Then Kalian had to reconstruct for his “batska” the “stable and flourishing Belarus” of the era of Lukashenka in a separate flat... (Note: “Batska” means “Dad” in Belarusian. But it’s also the common nickname for Lukashenka – the President of Belarus.)
"It Happened to a Lad"
Yura, an alright bloke from a council estate, has a tiff with his Babe. To try and chill out a bit, he decides to get himself an earner like all the rest. But on the way, he bumps into this gorgeous stranger - Nastia, an “activist” from some democratic firm. Yura finds out his country's got summat called an opposition, and it's fighting some dictatorship or other. Without expecting it, our hero winds up slap-bang in the middle of some political hoo-ha... |
