STREAM

• year : 2022
• country : Russia
• timing : 20:44'
• genre : fiction film
• producer : Sonn Shagleeva

written and produced by Sonn Shagleeva
DoP Nikita Sysoev
music by Ilya Hellert-Rozanov
sound by Yaroslav Knyazkov, Ruslan Shadoev
editor Yaroslav Kurylenko
production designer Sonn Shagleeva
cast: Grigory Sharikov, Elizaveta Kashintseva, Anna Igoshina

Trash-stream is a type of online broadcast, where participants perform various tasks for a financial reward from the audience. often the tasks performed by the participants of trash-streams go beyond the boundaries of moral and legal norms. The phenomenon of trash streams is that it exists only in the Russian-language Internet and for all its immorality and, often, illegality, such broadcasts gain millions of views. This film is a word-by-word reconstruction of the trash stream, which for its participants became the last.

• Luleå International Film Festival (2022, Sweden, Luleå)

Director’s statement

Modern humanity sees the world through the screen of its gadgets. That has a deep impact on our perception of reality. The film Stream is my attempt at analysing this new — formal — reality, which we see on our screens. The eyes of thousands of people will witness a real drama with a tragic finale. But a screen makes it all seem like a mere show. This concept forces our film to reconstruct real events, creating an illusion of our protagonists’ world. 

ABOUT THE FILM DIRECTOR:

Sonn Shagleeva was born in 22.08.1990 in Elista city of Kalmykia. In 2018 graduated from the Institute of Cinema and Television (GITR), documentary film faculty. Now Sonn creates own authors projects.

FILMOGRAPHY:

2022 - "Stream", short film
2021 - "Denial Syndrome", short film
2018 - "Last Chance", documentary