Three friends. Four trips to Russia. Moscow in spring, Kamchatka in the fall, and in winter to the Baikal Lake, Murmansk, Salekhard, and Saint Petersburg. You have to see what those three came back with. ‘Whatever man wishes to see in our Mother Russia, is there to find.’

Tattoo artist Herman IX from Moscow ( website, VK) and filmmaker Stepan Vetoshnikov ( Vimeo) travel in two months from Kaliningrad to Vladivostok (over 7000 kilometers), funded by the money Herman earns along the way. Documentary, art, and road movie: it’s all of these combined and never too much.

In 2017, you could see The Death of Stalin in theaters. More about it on IMDB, Filmkrant, VPRO Cinema and Wikipedia; trailer on YouTube. See also In Russia, nobody’s laughing at Iannucci’s The Death of Stalin (The Guardian, 2017).

The Modern Russian Design (or новый русский дизайн) is about graphic design in Russia. Cyrillic letters and symbols in creative forms, from the last 20 years. Beautiful works and entertaining stories, by colorful designers.