Results of the competition for social studies
29/04/2013
Results of the competition for a social short-length film
04/06/2013
Gleb Ponomarev is one of two winners of a short movies competition under the youthprogram “Youth Initiatives” of the Soros Foundation-Kazakhstan. Within a fewmonths, Gleb embodied his creative plans, and today he shares the history of his movie creation.
“I found information about the short movies competition on the website of the Foundation, and I wished to try myself. I have been always concerned about the corruption issue; it scared me and it scares me that now most of the people find corruption normal. The idea of the movie appeared four years ago, but it appeared in its final form only before the competition. I could not find time to implement my idea, and I had no support as well. The Foundation allocated a half million KZTwhich gave significant support in the animation preparation.
It seemed very risky to draw a 15-minute cartoon for half a year (usually a minute of finished material may take 1-3 months). Still the enthusiasm went through the roof, and it was decided to start working. Despite the fact that the creation of the movie took six intense months (working seven days a week and sometimes 18 hours a day), all the work was completed in one breath.
With the help of the movie I tried to show how money ‘feels’ when it is used as a bribe.
In the course of the story, the audience experiences the life of a five thousand note. At the beginning, it is bright and crisp, but its owners exchange it at the speed of a money riffle in a counting machine. Every one of them leaves its trace in the note’s fate. How many of such notesare now passed to someone in an envelope, invisibly under the table, or in a folder with documents? I wanted to show the process from the inside, and everyone shall make his own conclusions.”
Gleb Ponomarev
Almaty