AETHER
DIRECTOR NIKOLAI FLOTSKY
Script NIKOLAI FLOTSKY
Camera MAXIM ARKATOV, XENIA KAZAZAEVA
Music SERGEI PRIVALOV
Featuring VIKTOR PANOV, STEPAN POLEZHAEV,
NATALIA MALEVINSKAYA, ANASTASIA POLEZHAEVA,
VALERY CHUBAR
Producer EVGENIA PLETNYОVA
Production ARKHANGELSK BRANCH OF THE UNION
OF THEATRE WORKERS OF RUSSIA
Russia, 2023, 50’
3 October 17:15, Saturn IMAX #2
By creating a theater where many artists have found their home for the whole life, stage director Viktor Panov opened the way to art to the audience who wanted to see not always smooth, but free action. The Youth Theater, organized in 1975, walked a long path from banned performances in its native Arkhangelsk to participating at the Avignon Festival and getting Russia’s main theater prize “Gol-den Mask”. In 1990 Viktor Panov launched the International Festival of Street Theatres, which still gathers companies from all over the world in the city near the White Sea. The festival was included in the UNESCO cultural development program. Each of these steps is an aspiration to rise above reality, to combine fiction and reality, to create the world where everything is art and life is a miracle.