CYBERPUNK TV

Hello we're back in action. And we have a good story to tell. There was a lot of questions and inconvenience where to shoot our favourite band and good mates Punk TV, until onу day I payed a visit to a local Billboard magazine office and became enthralled with their passages and coridors. "One could easily film a movie here", Billboard editors and good friends of mine said. "Yeah, and I'm filming one right about now", I replied.



What I did next was a big mistake - we filed for an official permission to shoot there and got refusal, "for security reasons". It was my DIRECTOR'S VISION that was at stake hereб you see! I went in full Werner Herzog mode and decided to break into that business-centre "Nov'" (which means "virgin soil", apparently). To penetrate Nov' with our guerilla-underground-fucking-demented movie-making. Oh yes, sir.

After I made some useful inquieries about how all this works and got hold of passes which aloow enter the building not bothering security types at the gates, we did just that last Friday night, after 7 PM when all the clerks happily left home. We did shoot some beautiful and strange shots, as you can see, this place is pure cyberpunk after something in the ceiling fittings went horribly off. However after about half-an-hour (closer to 20 minutes, actually) we've been approached by security officer. The plan for that kind of situation was for all five us suddenly play dumb - what else could we do?



"What are you filming here, eh?", he said.
"Mmm, nothing, sir. Just the guys", I said.
"The guys, you say? Who are you and where are you from?"
"Why, of course, we're from M-Video". I tried not to cross helpful Billboard up and recalled sharing a smoke outside this building with some idiot stranger who worked, as he said, for company with that name.
"Well then go and film your stuff THERE", said the guard.
"Yeah but it's a lot more beautiful out HERE", I said. Besides the security cameras won't work because of this huge fucking crack in the ceiling.



Then we went off and did the remaining scenes at the shaurma cafe near Baumanskaya underground station in a lot more relaxed mode. I didn't compromise my position once again, and still captured just what I wanted & I will surely make a great play with this change of interiors. I think such stories adorn and profit any independent movie. AND now I have something to say to the young filmmakers of the world (i.e. to those who're even younger than me) - if you need to film something, don't waste your time filing stupid permissions. Just go in there and shoot yourt shit!