Swimmers

Run-down houses in an abandoned settlement in the southern corner of Russia. A controversial physicist, Boris Zolotov lives here. In the mid-1980s, Zolotov decided to leave the walls of the Soviet research institutions to follow his own beliefs. Today these take the form of hour-long swimming rituals and night-time theater performances. A group of people have collected around him, who choose to share his journey Like many in the group, the young Ekaterina was led here by the many questions which remained unanswered elsewhere. Together with Boris Zolotov, she discusses the concept of happiness in contemporary Russia.
SWIMMERS is a sketch of an attempt to maintain collective belief on the border of science, cosmology and psychedelic trance theater. (http://kristinapaustian.com/index.php?/root/zaplyv--zaplyv-2015/)