terra di tutti film festival
Documentaries and social cinema exhibition
8th edition | 8-12 october 2014
SECOND WIND
Sergey Tsyss | Russia | 2012 | 7'
Every day a man in astronaut suit has to extract a new flower from a can and then to plant it in the dry ground surrounding him. This seems to be the purpose of his existence, as if nothing else remained on Earth but the metallic rustle of the "flowers of apocalypse". A surreal film with an ecologist and apocalyptic soul at the same time.
Sergey Tsyss, class 1972, is a director, painter, writer, musician and actor. He graduated at the Theatrical Academy Vakhtangov, he worked as an actor for the theatre Taganka (Moscow), and then he started in 2000 his television career. He's an author and director of "Magnitik i prisoska" (2012) and of "Dresscode - Brain Noise" (2009). His debut film "Matches" has received severals international prizes, among which the prize of the tenth Eurasian Teleforum and the Radonezh Film Festival prize.