Hush! | Pssst! |Тише! (2003)

Synopsis

The director films the street where he lives in St. Petersburg, for a whole year, documenting the changes caused by the celebration of its 300th anniversary.

The very first photograph in history, “View from the Window at Le Gras,” (1826) and E.T.A. Hoffmann’s story “The Corner Window” inspired the film “Hush!”

The film was shot from the window of a St. Petersburg apartment in the year of preparation for the 300th anniversary of St. Petersburg.




A funny, entertaining life opens from the window of a St. Petersburg apartment. It could have appeared exactly like this from any other non-European window, and even a European one. Director-cameraman Kossakovsky stood at his window for about a year, recording Russian life from it.


The view from the window is the finest matter, consisting not only of everyday sketches, but of the steam of exhaust gases that poison the atmosphere; you can even smell the smell, although the screen does not smell. Wet asphalt is also alive, pulsating with every cell, like skin, or a human organ living in a certain rhythm, or the lava of an extinct volcano. Snow swirls in the light of a dim lantern. The child appeared in the window. What is there outside the window, what kind of unknown life is there - the baby is interested, he still doesn’t know anything about it. Dogs, people, cats, the rotation of different lives... A police car drove up, they tied up some guys. Hands behind your back.

And as a frame for what is happening - an endless asphalt patch under the window, living its own unique life, in constant transformation. Thanks to the utility workers for this manifestation of life. (AKKA)

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Country: Russia
Language: Russian
Color: Color
Runtime: 82 min.