Strasti
The film displays spiritual sufferings and searches for truth in a totalitarian mode of post-war Russia. The person having seen the sea of death, cannot go through it in absence of the God. Three conditional parts serve as analogue of bible history of sufferings, crucifixions and revivals of the Christ.

Ilya Gaponov
2007-Graduated from the Academy of Art and Design, St. Petersburg; 2003-2005 Petersburg fund of culture and arts “Institute PRO ARTE”, the program “New technologies in the modern art”, 2004, National School of Fine Arts, Paris (workshop Vincent BARRE, Ecole Nationale Superieure des BEAUX ARTS, Paris).  In 2006 he realized a project of contemporary art at the Art Bienale in Kemerovo.