Elegy from Russia...sleep studies (1993)

Hands of a dying man.

Landscape with sunrise, black clouds cover the sky.

Summer landscape (darkening).

A man in a white T-shirt looks out the window (darkening).

Summer evening landscape, a sunny strip over the forest, the sun begins to illuminate the area.

A man smokes a cigarette, sitting by a log wall.

Trees in the forest at sunrise, the leaves rustle.

Photographs of peasants by a lake in the early 20th century.

Photograph of a peasant leaning on the railing of a wooden bridge.

Photographs of people in a sailboat on a lake.

Photograph of fishing nets drying on the shore.

Photograph of railroad tracks at the beginning of the bridge over the Volga.

Photograph of a railroad bridge over the Volga.

Photograph of the beginning of the bridge, a horse-drawn cart entering the bridge (enlargement).

Photograph of a bridge over a river, a boat at a bridge support.

Photograph of the entrance to the bridge, a police post at the bridge.

Photograph of people standing on the street near an icon (darkening).

A photograph of a river landscape with wooden houses on the river bank.

Photographs of city streets in Russia in the 1910s, people on the streets, trading in markets, life and everyday life of people.

Photographs of Orthodox churches and monasteries in the cities of the Volga region in the 1910s.

Photographs of Volga landscapes, the life and daily activities of local residents.

Photographs of a ferry crossing.

Photographs of people crossing the river in boats, river landscapes.

Photographs of streets in provincial cities in Russia, monasteries.

Photographs of the everyday life and everyday life of peasants in a Russian village, faces in the photographs.

Photographs of a Russian village in the early 20th century.

Photographs of residents of male and female workers' dormitories in the late 19th - early 20th centuries.

Group photographs of residents of city flophouses in the early 20th century who came from the village to earn money, faces in the photographs, fragments of the photographs.

Photographs of day laborers on city streets.

A photograph of one of the bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church with awards on his vestments.

Officers in the photograph.

The face of a sleeping woman, the woman opens her eyes, turns her head, delivers a monologue about the price a person pays for the mistakes made during life (synchronously).

The face of a young man.

The man lies in bed, turns from side to side.

Newsreel from 1915-1916: German officers walk along the street of an occupied French city past destroyed houses.

German soldiers in a trench preparing to open fire from a mortar.

Firing from a mortar, adjusting the sight after each shot, installing ammunition.

A British artillery crew firing at the enemy on the Western Front during World War I. Firing from a heavy gun.

German and allied troops conduct combat operations in a forest, German soldiers change positions.

German soldiers climb out of a trench and advance towards the enemy.

Firing from a British heavy gun, the actions of the crew, shells exploding between the trees.

A German infantry unit advances through a swamp under enemy fire.

German soldiers evacuate wounded comrades in their arms.

Landscapes of forest swamps and lakes.

Views of a forest on the shore of a lake.

The freezing surface of a lake.

The face of a child sleeping outdoors.

A bird under fern leaves.

Fern thickets in a birch forest.

The trees in the forest sway from gusts of wind, the sun's rays begin to illuminate the clearing.

Fern thickets under streams of rain, the sun begins to illuminate the fern.

Dishes and pieces of bread on a table in the semi-darkness, a man lies in bed near a wall with peeling plaster, illuminated by light from cloudy windows.

A man's pulsating throat.

View of the edge of the forest, a road along the forest.