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Arkhangelsk Oblast

Ivan and the Moon

by Daria Tuminas

Ivan is the elder, he is 16. Andrey, nicknamed “Moon”, is the younger, 14 now. The two brothers live in a distant village in the northern part of Russia. They are not like city teenagers, with completely different moral values and a fairy tale world inside: they go hunting and fishing, can use a joiner’s chisel, play with ghosts in abandoned places, do not want to move to a city…

Mature and childish. Naive and enigmatic. In this ongoing project I want to show something of the mysteriousness of these brothers’ world.