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Film plot based on marginal conspiracy theory that russian political elites are practising magic rites in Siberia to empower. This theory gained traction from 2021 to 2022 across Russian online platforms, mostly through Telegram chanels and investigative publication of opposition journalist. With lack of documentation, author decide to re-imagine this events, and make a film reconstruction of one of the rites. Alchemy, occultism and magic rites become the object of the author's research, forming a semantic contradiction with the everyday image of casual life

Lilia Filina is an artist filmmaker, whose work is situated on the uncertain thresholds of the perceptible and the communicable, organism and environment, and knowledge regimes and power, at the intersection of media and the history of political thought. Born in Kaluga, Russia, 1999, she now lives and works in Istanbul, Turkey. Alumni of the Rodchenko art school, Sergey Bratkov class, she works as director and develops independent project on edge of film and videoart.