The Horse, the Violin and a Little Bit Nervous
Irina Evteeva’s debut quickly became a kind of manifesto for the one-room experimental studio: it defines classification by interweaving animation, appropriated footage, feature and documentary to form a unique whole, a film that rushes backwards into the future, thereby re-inventing Futurism. Mayakovskiy is the star; his occasional presence holds together a film driven by the sound, the beat, of his poetry. Evteeva develops a dramatic structure of flaring, fading, being from light: violin strings become rays, quivering dull yellow spots, pictures. The plot assails the material from which it derives energy from material. History, growling and roaring, finds its form.
- Year: 1991
- Country: Soviet Union
- Genre: Animation, Fantasy
- Studio: Lenfilm, PIEF Film Studio
- Keyword: short film
- Director: Irina Evteeva
- Cast: Georgi Traugot, Margarita Bychkova, Semyon Furman, Boris Cherdyntsev, Tatyana Reshetnikova, Anatoli Petrov
