Sunday, February 08, 2009

Гулять in the North Caucasus

Decaying concrete towerblocks. Beige satin curtains. "Soup" of sheeps' lungs floating in fatty water. But also: freshly-squeezed pomegranate juice. Girls in thigh-high leather boots. Music that fuses accordion duets with Russian techno.

What's not to like about winter in the republics of Kabardino-Balkaria and North Ossetia?


--click the little X next to 'vimeo' to get it full-screen.

Cities: 0:54 to 2:57
Mountains: 2:58 to 4:10
People: 5:02 to 6:24
Soviet: 6:43 to 8:45

If you get stuttered visuals or clicks in the sound, try the low-defn version instead: