Set to readings of Thomas Mann's 'The Magic Mountain', a collage of medical, art and found footage, exploring various medical cases, including reconstructing the damaged human body, the separation of Siamese twins, and Cold War era attempts to create superhumans.
Editing
Jarring montage that weaponizes found footage against itself.
Sound
Mann's bourgeois narration collides with surgical audio.
Direction
Andrey I's cold gaze refuses easy moral comfort.
Director
Andrey I
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Andrey I smuggled classified Soviet medical footage out using diplomatic pouches disguised as film cans.
The 'superhuman' experiments referenced were real NKVD projects; the film was banned in Russia until 2009.
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