AGAINST NIGHT is not a film about a cosmonaut. It’s a film about a father. In my mind, though, the ideas of father and cosmonaut overlap a little. The distance, the suit. A father inherently starts from outside the family and has to work his way in.
Fundamentally, we’re made up of time and memory. The older we get, the more we become accumulations of memory, and the more we’re defined by the past. A child, or an animal, is free of this predicament. Time is the chain and memory the ball, growing heavier each day.
We have the choice of defining ourselves through our memory, our past, or against it. But whichever is the case, we’re still defined by it. And as we age, we take damage. Our bodies, cells, DNA all take damage, and our psyche too. It’s memory that does the damage.
We do funny things to memory: repress it, wallow in it, blow it up to great proportions until it crowds out all sense and reason. I believe this is a defining characteristic of being human, and it’s the reason I made this film.
Showtimes
Sunday, December 6 / 7:00pm
Globe Princess Theatre, Governor's Harbour
Thursday, December 10 / 3:45pm
Melia Hotel
Credits
Director
Stefan Kubicki
Screenwriter
Stefan Kubicki
Producer
Saba Zerehi
Principal Cast
Konstantin Lavysh, Elena Caruso, Gleb Kaminer, Eve Korchkov
Language
Russian (English Subtitles)