International Competition

The North of Russia, forty-five years after testing the H-Bomb. Nature is suspended in a time-like-water, bunch of insects dog farmers while crossing silent fields, like people astray on the debris of nuclear experiments. Post-atomic realism in scenery torn away from a rotten science-fiction. On the third Planet out of Sun is set in the Russian North where people pick ‘space garbage’ out of the bog, then sell the scrap metal or use it in the housekeeping and farming. Pilgrims on their way to these sacred icons suffer greatly in the Northern forests and bogs. In Arkhangelsk, 45-yearold nuclear bomb experiments are part of day-to-day life. Pavel Medvedev extends the boundary of the creative documentary through a striking visual exploration of environmental destruction and the rebirth of a community in northern Russia.