A feast during the plague, but make it a synthwave dance party in Moscow.
The main character of the film is DJ Morze, a philologist by training, the creator and ideological inspirer of the OBERWAVE project - a community and a series of parties dedicated to sensual neo-decadent music and the aesthetics of a feast during the plague.
Direction
Afanasiev captures liminal spaces with hypnotic patience.
Sound
The OBERWAVE sets deserve their own Spotify playlist immediately.
Director
Vitaly Afanasiev
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
OBERWAVE emerged from Moscow's 2020s underground scene, where pandemic restrictions paradoxically fueled intimate illegal gatherings.
Konstantin Shumilov's philology background shapes how he talks about music — he treats synthwave like dead languages worth preserving.
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