“Never Ready” By The BlueStocking

A look at 5 personal stories of the members of the band “BlueStocking”, through the prism of magical surrealism with a tinge of steam punk and a dark fairytale.

The short film IN MEDIAS RUSH is an experimental cinematic journey into the depths of a manic mind. A poetic retro-sci-fi narrative unfolded in a string of unsettling tableaus that encapsulates the male protagonist’s ambiguous feelings about his birthday. While balancing between realities in his silent struggle with severe mental illness, we plunge into the film at a neatly orchestrated birthday party. The protagonist is accompanied by his girlfriend, and they are drinking cocoa on the couch in their mutual home. The setting breathes pure perfection, but through the voice over we sense that another reality is soon to be revealed. With one foot on the accelerator, he is heading towards the edge. The thematic focal point of IN MEDIAS RUSH is mental health problems among young adults, and the social/personal consequences related to the existing taboo on the subject. The film wishes to formulate an honest cinematic space in which words, sound, and image artistically interprets and articulates some of the perspectives related to especially bipolar, anxiety, and psychotic disorders. IN MEDIAS RUSH was nominated in the category 'Best Danish Short Film' at Copenhagen Short Film Festival in 2020. Original title: IN MEDIAS RÆS Directed by: Esben Persson -------------------- DK: IN MEDIAS RÆS IN MEDIAS RÆS er en filmisk rejse ind i dybderne af et manisk sind. En ung mand fejrer sin fødselsdag, mens hans tanker tordner afsted. Med en uvillig fod på speederen har han kurs mod kanten. FR: IN MEDIA RES IN MEDIA RES est un voyage dans les profondeurs d’un esprit maniaque. Un jeune homme fête son anniversaire tandis que ses pensées se multiplient. Malgré lui, il se dirige vers un point de non-retour. -------------------- Cast: Peter Alexander Bach & Amanda Overby Drew Director // Script writer // Set designer // Costume designer // Editor // Speaker: Esben Persson Photographer // Editor: Lasse Mølsted Producer: Latifa Lykke Ben Mabrouk Assistant producer: Cecilie Creutsberg Music composer: Martin Bejder Sound designer: Mads Hye Chief Lighting Technician: Rasmus Bruun Liboriussen VFX: Jonas Fonnesbæk Lodahl Colorist: Kristopher Paterson Graphic designer: Jakob Toft Kristensen -------------------- Shot on RED Monstro 8K with Lomo Squarefront Anamorphics.

Since the music video was the band's debut, we set ourselves the task of introducing people to the band from the very beginning. But this acquaintance had to be not simple, but, first of all, very personal, and secondly, made in a style that would correspond to the unique sound of the band as much as possible. Each story turned out not only about the band members, but also about the universal, big problems that people face in life or bring upon themselves: addiction, burnout, dependence on other people's opinions. So the music video turned out to be fabulous, but also a very dark warning about how easy it is to lose yourself by submitting to your inner urges, even if they are very sincere.

Egor Gavrilin - Writer, Director

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Credits

Written and Directed by Egor Gavrilin
DOP: Michael Soloviov
Producer: Lucy Kravtsova
Production Team: Loise Levitina, Pavel Tchugunov
1st Assistant Director: Maria Nikitina
Casting: Tatiana Bogdanova
Color: Maxim Mironov
Post-Production: SINNERS, Alex Beresnev
Intro and Outro SoundDesign: YS
Casting: Tatiana Bogdanova
MUA: Olya Dulepova, Vladislava Zelentsova
SFX MUA: Sergey Rombok
Costume Coordinator: Tatiana Bogdanova
Choreographer: Veronika Gurina
Masks by Edward Jekyll
Props by Fyodor "Zero" Barinov

Camera: Filipp Shevchenko
Focus Pullers: Anton Himoroda, Filipp Shevchenko
Steadycam: Nikolay Veretin
Gaffer: Alexei Korobkov
Pyrotechnician: Dmitry Zhilkov
Photographer: Patricia Shneider

Special thanks to Ivan Klimov, Mitya Rozhkov, Ilya Ezhek

Shot on location at the Black Swan Pub in Moscow, Russia

Starring:
Guitar Masters: Ivan Tokarev, Fyodor "Zero" Barinov
Dancers: Timur Alekseev, Nikolay Nikitin, Mihail Malyshev, Egor Maksim, Artyom Petrovskiy, Nikita Malkov

The BlueStocking are Kira Mikheeva, Helen Dergaus, Kat Soloviev, Egor Gavrilin, Ilya Gorokhvodatsky

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