fantastic little splash

In the centre of city Dnipro, Ukraine, during the 50 years exist abandoned hotel ‘PARUS’ (SAIL). It had to become the symbol of the grandiosity of Dnipropetrovsk as the homeland of the Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev. But it has never been opened — the construction stopped on the eve of collapse of the Soviet Union. PARUS is the artefact of city folklore, one of the traditional objects of souvenir production and a part of city identity — font and logo of city refers to PARUS too. From the 2000 the PARUS has been depicting like a finished building on calendars, in memes, art-projects, architectural visualizations. For a lot of people in Dnipro its already the symbol of the city, although it unfinished. "concrete and unclear" researched a plenty of PARUS's interpretations in different analogue and digital mediums, and tried to capture condition of this collective dreaming. The film was made with the support of the "Cultural Capital" program