DUST Original Title: PYL’ English Title: DUST Running Time: 107’ Format: digital (DVD) Director: Sergei Loban Producer: Mikhail Sinev Production company: SVOI-2000 Script: Marina Potapova Photography: Dmitri Model’ Cast: Aleksey Podolsky, Petr Mamonov, Dmitri Pimenov, Psoi Korolenko, Aleksei Ageev, Larisa Piatnitskaya, and others Premiere: Moscow, June 2005 Festivals: Moscow International Film Festival 2005 (Diploma of the Jury of Russian Film Critics); Open Film Festival of CIS and Baltic countries «KINOSHOK», Anapa, September 2005 (Best film in Digital Format) Synopsis: The genre of the film DUST could be called fantastic realism or existential drama with elements of the fantastic. Dust means the haste in which people live. Dust is a common misconception, the natural clogging up of the brain. Specks of dust how scientists perceive people, scientists who think they know more than anyone else about the universe. Biography: Sergei Loban was born in Moscow in 1972. He graduated from the Moscow Institute of Electronics and Maths. In 1995, he organised with friends a club in a derelict basement near the Moscow River which, for two years, functioned as the epicentre of non-official culture. In 2001 the independent Belarusian newspaper “Navinki” invited Sergei and his creative team “SVOI 2000” to make a film based on a script of one of the leaders of the Belarusian underground. As a result the first independent Belarusian film was made with a budget of $1000. Filmography 2000, “It could have been much worse” [Moglo byt’ gorazdo khuzhe] (24’) prod. TK Klass 2001, “Incident with a guy” [Intsident s patsanom] (50’) prod. NAVINKI 2002, “Suck the banana” [Sosi banan] (11’) prod. SVOI 2000 2005, Dust [Pyl’] (107’) prod. SVOI 2000 Address: Producer Mikhail Sinev, Letnaya St. 38/2/85, 141021 Moscow, Russia. Phone & Fax: +7 495 581 29 19, Mobile: +7 910 4094081 E-mail: sinev@kinoteatrdoc.ru