Янь
In St. Petersburg's environs, in the palace park of Pavlovsk, stands an original monument. The time didn't spare the metallic construction, that had been before, as it seems, a fountain with nude torso on its top. Now there's no figure above, but only the hand, uplifted to heaven in resolutely gesture. Created by time, this is monument for hand as the main ruler of human ideas. Hands bake bread, hands build the houses, teat ch children and care beloveds, create masterpieces and lead to the light. Hand, reached to friend, symbolize the brother ship, to rival - the conciliation. But the same time hand also may hold a weapon, hand signs the sentence of death, hand seduces, beats and even kills. So what the monument dedicated to - to Kind or Evil ? This question became the catalyst of making the film "The Two". On example of two young people relation there's make an attempt to philosophize on this theme.
the Apostle
Saw and imagined in the children's fantasy the story of grandmother of Christ and the Apostles a little girl. Today few people remember that just a few decades ago in the village houses next to the icons you could still see the popular prints on religious themes. They finally disappeared from use only in the 60-ies of the last century. Of course, their creators were not professional painters or connoisseurs of theology. Drew, as best they could, she felt, not knowing neither rules nor laws. Simple uneducated people, nuggets, sought to glorify God with their creativity, that resonates in the hearts of those of peasants or artisans as they are.
