“Into The Dark” By Roman Duneshenko
A story about a girl and her temptation.
We all live under the oppression of certain foundations, breaking which we become the object of public censure. I wanted to play this game and take it to extreme. On the one hand, sex is a red flag for those who like to condemn. On the other hand, the church has always been extremely conservative. I pushed these elements together, making it as dramatic as possible and turning it into visual poetry.
Yes, we used the texture of religion, but this video wasn't a manifesto against it. I take religion calmly and even with understanding.
It's more like a manifesto against any power that restricts the natural needs of a person and punishes him for his desires and actions that are harmless to society. And the theme of religion in it is only for the sake of visual aesthetics.
We planned to shoot a short and simple story in one or one and a half shifts. But the appetite comes with eating! We realized during the process that we wanted to add more and more: to shoot flower time-lapses, to launch a quadcopter, to make glowing eyes from lanterns, etc. As a result, we got 4-5 long shifts in the spring and summer of 2020 and small re-shoots of certain scenes.
Vlada Erofeeva, the main actress, got the worst of it. She had to get pretty cold, to lie in a hole among half-naked women, and even to beat herself in the final scene to make it more realistic. Vlada is a real hero! If I had made a mistake with the casting, we would have had serious problems.
Roman Duneshenko - Director
Credits
Director: Roman Duneshenko
Director of photography: Mila Shamraeva
Producers: Stepan Chernikov, Taya Komarova
Starring: Vlada Erofeeva
Priest: Slava Sikorsky
Production: Cherry, Ogonok
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