Completed Films
46 minutes; color & b/w; Russian with English subtitles; digital video; Canada, 2008 (first cut 2005). Dir.: T. Lahusen, T. McDonald, A. Gershtein, A. Nikitin; camera: A. Gershtein.
A film about memory and cinema in central Russia.
56 minutes; color & b/w; Russian with English subtitles; digital video; Canada, 2007. Dir.: T. Lahusen, T. McDonald, A. Gershtein.
A love affair with Komsomolsk-on-Amur, in the Russian Far East, its struggle with the past, and its hope for the future through the eyes of young people, aging Communists, former labor-camp prisoners, and the local avant-garde theater.
20 minutes; color & b/w; Russian with English subtitles; digital video; Canada, 2008 (new cut). Dir.: T. McDonald; camera: A. Gershtein & T. Lahusen.
Women remember a major uprising of 1930 against the collectivization of agriculture in their villages in Riazan province.
59 minutes; color & b/w; Russian with English subtitles; digital video; Canada, December 2008. Dir.: T. Lahusen, T. McDonald, A. Gershtein; camera: A. Gershtein; original music: Timofeyev Ensemble.
A film about Riazan photographer Evgeny Kashirin (1949-2007), who recorded a poignant visual, social, and cultural history of his time and place. A triptych of his work shows a dying rural life, a train crawling from town to town, and the story of a man who traded his wife for a marble statue of Judith.