Cruel Illness of Men

Overview

Under a score of abbreviated drones and freeform woodwinds, the Aleinikov brothers cut together a series of images, found and made, that look unfailingly bleak, industrial or both bleak and industrial: disused factories, clunky utilitarian machinery, strings of unsettlingly young violinists, old-timey group portraits with everyone's eyes scratched out. Interspersed are less overtly sinister but somehow eerier snatches of action, like a circling brood of crude stop-motion mice or a bunch of little wooden people chopping wood and sawing logs, all differently affected by the vagaries time and the physical world foist onto film stock.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

December 28, 1989

Original language

Russian

Spoken languages

Russian

Countries

Soviet Union

Director

Igor Aleynikov,Gleb Aleynikov

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt6653970