Documentary project “Soul mirror. The explanatory dictionary of the post-Soviet man”

The project was launched in December. It highlights personality.

The idea of the project by Oleg Arnautov, Yuri Pantyukhine.
Director and cameraman – Oleg Arnaurov
Producer - Vera Neklyudova
Actively contribute to the project provided at various times: Eugene Berezner, Dmitry Severyukhina, Svetlana Kolosova, Andrew Chegin, Zurab Tsereteli, Asya Filippova, Love Korneev, Sergei Filatov, Natalia and Tatiana Kolodzei, Vsevolod Bogdanov, Annamuhamed Zaripov.


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News of the project:

On October, 15th 2007 – the opening day of an exhibition made of T. and N. Kolodzei’s collection “Moscow – New-York = a display of multi-board game” at the State center of modern art. At the exhibition among works by Eric Bulatov, Ilya Kabakov, Vitaliy Komar and Aleksandr Melamid, Lmitriy Krasnopevtsev, Vladimir Nemukhin there is a video-sequence of the video-installation by Oleg Arnaurov, an artist, “Freedom as a citation from the explanatory dictionary of 2007” (author – Oleg Arnautov, producer – V.Nekhlyudova, curator – E.Berezner).

The exhibition will be available until November 11th, from 12.00 till 19.00 (Monday excluded). Address: underground station “Barrikadnaya”, Zoologuicheskaya street, 13/2.

On October, 12th 2007 – A presentation of the project “Soul mirror. An explanatory dictionary” at the journalism faculty of the Moscow state university.

On September, 22-29th 2007 – The team of authors (Oleg Arnautov and Vera Nekhliudova) worked at an international journalist festival in Dogomys. 16 video-conversations with legendary Russian journalists were recorded.

On September, 20th 2007 – A presentation of the project “Soul mirror. An explanatory dictionary” at the international festival “Golden tambourine” in Khanty-Mansyisk.

On September, 15-21th 2007 – the team of authors of the project “Soul mirror. An explanatory dictionary” (Oleg Arnautov and Vera Nekhliudova) worked at the international festival “Golden tambourine” in Khanty-Mansyisk. 20 video-conversations, including that with the Governor, president of the Khanty-Mansyisk autonomous district – Yugra, Aleksandr Filipenko.

On July, 16th 2007 – A video-film featuring Dmitriy Prigov was presented on the Internet. Watch the news>>

From 10 till 15 of July in Moscow the project was presented by way of a video-installation “Life and Death as two terms from the dictionary of the post-Soviet man”.Watch the news>>