The Road Movie - True/False Film Fest

The Road Movie

A raucous tour of a Russia whose dash-cam footage supplies both morbid marvels and insight into an off-the-rails culture.
Director: Dmitrii Kalashnikov
Runtime: 1:12
In-person: dir. Dmitrii Kalashnikov
Fest Year: 2017
Russian drivers depend on dashboard cameras to provide video proof when filing insurance claims and police reports. Composed entirely of dash-cam videos pulled from YouTube, this road trip takes us on a raucous, expletive-laden and very occasionally hopeful tour of the Russian countryside. Out of this wreckage, director Dmitrii Kalashnikov deftly crafts a nightmare of epic proportions, full of eye-popping sights and morbid beauty, such as an endless burning forest, a runaway wedding guest, and countless rounds of car crashes. Masterful editing and a keen sense of poetic justice add up to a dire warning of the future. Just try not to laugh as we all go down in flames.(AS)Preceded by a provocation from Stacy Kranitz.