Actor Roman Evdokimov is trying his hand at directing. Roman shot his debut music video for the song “How Good” by Vasily Mikhailov’s decadent project “Bomba-Oktyabr,” starring Anya Chipovskaya. Evdokimov turns the song’s hero, Vasily Mikhailov, who bravuraly pines for the absence of love, into a stalker whose loneliness is an addiction, and the heroine, Anya, into the object of his secret desires.
The video clearly shows Evdokimov’s passion for analog photography, as well as auteur cinema: here you can find references to Wenders’ “The End of Violence,” Soderbergh’s “Sex, Lies, and Videotape,” and even the films of Michael Figgis.
It is noteworthy that when creating the video Evdokimov used stop-motion animation, that is, frame-by-frame animation. The artist, along with the director who assisted her, manually created more than 3,000 frames, which were assembled into an unusual cartoon. And all this – without the use of AI.
