The Road Movie

The camera has become public domain. It makes it possible to document (almost everything) you see, at the same time as you are watched by others. What this do to us, and the film as medium, is the fruitful and fascinating starting point of Dimitrij Kalasjnikovs The Road Movie. The film consists of clips from dashboard-cameras in Russian vehicles, and the result is a mosaic of events – and unfiltered reactions – far away from what Norwegian drivers experience. This include severe accidents, forest fires, violent drivers, absurd meeting with the police and a comet astray. The switch between the extreme and the everyday makes this into a film where you never know what’s behind the next turn. The Road Movie is an absurd, beautiful, and sometimes quite scary film, and a interesting insight to Russian (traffic)culture. JSR

Dmitrii Kalashnikov (b. 1986) is a Russian director, photographer and editor from Archangelsk. Before Kalashnikov directed The Road Movie, he made Film About Love (2014) and Waiting for the Snow (2015). His films have been shown at festivals like Visions du Réel in Switzerland, ArtDokFest in Russia, IDFA in Netherland and True/False Film Fest in the US.