A 14-minute fever dream where carpentry becomes carnal chaos.
The married head of the elite women's club "Decent Ladies" loses her peace of mind when a multi-faced carpenter begins to appear to her in her dreams with ambiguous hints.
Direction
Mikheeva crams an entire arc into 14 hallucinatory minutes.
Acting
Klimova's face does three acts of repression in one shot.
Production
Dream logic production design on a presumably tiny budget.
Director
Oksana Mikheeva
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Russian 'decency clubs' for women were real Soviet-era phenomena; Mikheeva weaponizes this history for absurdist ends.
The title references Newton's cradle—suggesting desire as perpetual motion, each swing hitting the same repressed notes.
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