The Actor desperately attends the audition to get the part of his dream and to impress the director and the casting director. He turns out to fail a new casting, despite his marvelous monologue’s delivery. After coming back home, he texts his girlfriend about his plan to commit suicide and takes attempts to turn this plan into reality, but something goes wrong there…
The crew proves to be a team of young professionals fascinated by the idea to create a black-and-white short film in keeping with the best aesthetic traditions of world filmmaking with a timely and resonant impertinent storyline. The film industry from within, ruined lives, genius, and mediocrity appear to be complex topics flavored with a Fellini-like touch of fatalism, which contributed to the creation of conceptually new reading. It was the black-and-white aesthetics that opened the way to convey efficiently all borderline states, the actor’s world perception, his environment, edges, high-stakes drama, thrills, contrasts, simplicity, but at the same time all depth, light, and obscurity, dynamics, lack of other colors reflecting protagonist’s internal state.
The idea is implemented within the approach to the technical aspects: the movie was shot with a black-and-white camera RED Monochrome. “Today’s noose” actually became the first movie shot with Red Monochrome in Russia, thanks to the confidence in the film crew’s professionalism. The crew had to search for special handbooks and light experts in black-and-white movies, which resulted in the development of instructions in close cooperation of the camera department with the team of production designers.
The movie was conceived in decadence, and many internal problems and the actor’s mental specificity are revealed within the story. Actor tends to be one of the most nuanced and multifaceted crafts, and it is within acting that a person can unveil his potential to the fullest as a personality. Such movies enable a viewer to gain greater insights into actors as personalities and immerse themselves in the reality of their acting career. Mikhail Fatakhov, Anna Gabriel’s curator acted as the director in the movie. The crew highly appreciated all trust and support provided by course lecturers, true cinema connoisseurs, and technical partners.