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What is Earth?

What’s the solar system?

What’s humanity, at that?

The solar system to the universe

is like one divided by infinity.

Mathematics says that one
divided by infinity is zero.

I grew up in the far north

and since I was a child
I’ve never seen

anything good
besides the northern lights.

I'd see the window light up,

we would go into the
street, and all of the sudden...

Usually, the northern lights come

in these waves on the horizon.

And this time, right above
us in the middle of the sky,

there are these pillars
that head straight for us.

The northern lights are
a symphony of colour.

Even in nature,
there’s colour music.

I designed this as a hall
for colour music

before I was commissioned to design
the Institute of Information.

So this was a totally
unrealistic idea.

This is the most basic device.

These are seven colours
and seven tonalities

Each tonality has its own colour.

And now, this chord.

See?
They’re getting colder.

The construction workers
said it couldn't be built.

And our designers too, by the way.

The chief engineer says:
'you can't do it, it will collapse.'

Nevertheless, it was built

and has been standing for 40
years and has not collapsed yet.

– Yes?
– Hello, Florian Illich!

I’m at the Institute of Information now,

we’ve got a meeting here.

– You see, I’m skeptical,

pretty skeptical now.

There have been so
many investors around.

And when they wanted to
convert this into a gambling hall,

they kept it a secret from me.

So it is his, right?

Is it this owner?

So they wanted to build a
gambling house here, in this hall.

But who's the owner now?

Before, it was the son of Yanukovych
[the overthrown president], but now who?

– Nobody knows the true owner.

– The son of the son of
Yanukovych? I don't know.

– Well, this building was built
with his money, supposedly.

– Maybe. But look, everything
has already been tied with rebar.

– So, what’s it going to be?

– A shopping center,
an expansion of this...

– This one?

– Its second part.

– And how many floors
are they going to build?

– I have not seen the final
plans. Honestly, I can’t say.

- Well, they’re already on the
Institute of Information’s property.

– Lyosha said they want
to make the entrance

to the shopping mall
under the Flying Saucer building.

That they need this
territory to get into their mall.

– Got it.

– A little over a
year ago, during

a dialogue in the
Ministry of Education,

a proposal was
put forward to turn

this building into a
Science Museum.

And then, our interests
overlapped with those of

an investor who is building
a structure behind it.

But now we are
facing certain risks.

– The investor doesn’t want to
discuss the colour of the facade at all.

They say the decision’s
already been made, and that’s it.

They say they want the
facade to be blue. Period.

Because blue is the
investor’s favorite colour.

– Why don’t we just
meet him, face to face?

I do everything at once.

This happens to left-handers.

I was a lefty, and my
dad tried to correct me.

And when you correct a lefty,

their brain multitasks.

Music doesn’t mean anything for
me by itself – only when it’s with colour.

Colour is meaningless too
by itself, if it isn’t musical.

They only have meaning for
me if they’re paired together.

There are musical laws of forms

The ensemble of the
square, the relations between

the buildings – they’re all
musical structures to me.

You see, architecture
reflects social relations.

Those relations are chaotic now.

And this chaos
impacts architecture.

You can't get away from it.

My building doesn’t
suppress the human.

On the contrary: it
opens up its own meaning.

This highrise is like a book.
That’s information.

If only this building
had a protected status

as an architectural monument...

At the time when this
building was being designed

we were obsessed
with outer space.

This was the idea of
people finally breaking

away from the Earth
and flying into space.

I assembled a group,

and we quickly
completed a design.

First of all, we
created a bowl.

Why a bowl?

Because I needed
an amphitheatre.

And here it is.

I would like to re-instate
the original function here...

According to the
project here, this was

designed as a hall
for colour music.

That would have
been the first

hall for colour
music ever built.

Our task is to show

that this venue is still alive,

just as its architect is.

We can still save this venue.

– Recently, several
iconic buildings

had been unexpectedly
redesigned and rebuilt.

These actions aren’t
authorised and it’s not clear

why this happens
and who controls this.

– A new part of the Ocean Mall,
a shopping center,

is under construction
behind the building.

The investor of
this shopping mall

is interested in
renting out space here

that would allow him to
integrate it into his shopping center

and gain access to the
façade of this building.

– Can I ask a question now?
– Sure.

Can I just ask: where are these

architectural proposals
coming from, you see, like…

– I’ve seen other options
as well. This isn’t the end.

The problem is, there’s a risk of
ending up with this kind of image.

But keep in mind that
the investor is bringing

around 5 million
Euros into the project.

– Are you kidding? No,
really, are you kidding?

Tell us the name
of the investor!

Tell us the kind of
corporate raider he is!

Tell us about how he murders people...

– I don't know anything
about murders. We’re still alive.

– In my eyes, this is
an architectural monster.

I don’t want to participate
in this kind of project.

– We are most concerned
by the fact that,

according to our
insider information,

they’re planning to
build the entrance to their

shopping mall right
through the Flying Saucer building.

That is, they see this
building as their entrance.

That said, we don’t
really understand

the point of this
new shopping mall.

There’s already a
shopping mall right next to it,

and there’s another shopping
mall across the street.

It seems that the
architect of this mall

has agreed with its
investor, Vagif Aliyev,

not to show the plans to anyone.

– And who’s the investor?
– It’s Vagif Aliyev.

–Today our guest is
Vagif Aliyev. Hello, Vagif!

– Hello!

– Could you please
tell me, why did you

start to do
investment projects?

– Once upon a time, in 1998,

I was in New York
for the New Year.

And one of my buddies there
was a close friend of Donald Trump.

So this buddy
arranged our meeting,

and I met with Donald
Trump for four hours.

And these four hours completely
turned my life upside down.

That’s when I realized I need
to do real estate business.

The most important
thing Trump told me was:

you understand, Vagif, you
just have to erect a building

that everyone will have
right in front of their eyes,

and take pleasure in that.

He said you must do real estate

while blood is being shed...

– They had just
back-pedaled on this project.

This one would have
destroyed the Flying Saucer completely.

But now they came up with this idea.

They say it does not interfere
with the Flying Saucer.

But they are still
taking over this object.

They’re absorbing it!

Here’s our site,

and here – this
monster was built.

They need this
entrance as a front door

to take advantage of
the Flying Saucer’s brand.

What I suggest is to
construct a different entrance,

and to emphasize it.

When they pushed us like this, it
was like a corporate raider takeover.

And if we move them aside...

I propose to extend this
building here like this,

so then there will be no need to
go under the Flying Saucer because

in terms of urban planning, this
entrance is stronger than that one.

– Maybe it could also be like this.
– It won't scare me.

This way it doesn’t scare me,
and that way it doesn’t scare me.

Let's imagine.

There you have it.

There is no damage
to the Flying Saucer.

– Hello, Florian Illich!

This is Bykov speaking.

– I wanted to
warn you that

I was invited to
see Vagif at 1pm.

But Kyiv is flooded and we

can’t get there,
puddles everywhere.

– So what are we going to
do with the Flying Saucer?

The Flying Saucer is
going to be a masterpiece.

– According to Yuriev’s project?

– According to plans
by... my teacher.

So, Seryozha, stop filming.
Let’s talk it over first...

– This is for you!
– I know. Take it!

Here you go! Here you go, and
that’s it! Take it to the designers!..

By the way, I looked
up this Vagif guy,

and he writes
here that he dreams

of building the
tallest building in Kyiv.

He does not say anything about
the point of this building, though.

He just wants to build
the tallest building in Kyiv.

All nature is colourful.

All nature instructs us with colour.

But if we don’t know the
meaning of a certain colour,

we are not able to
understand what nature tells us.

Here’s a friend of mine
who’s been to the North.

He knows

that the tundra is the most
colourful place in the world.

But to survive in the tundra,

you need to know the language
of tundra, the language of nature.

I made instruments.

And with these instruments, I
show how the colour in movement,

the colour in harmony could
create a new kind of art.

I made a hall for the colour music.

And here is the shopping mall,

which is now being built behind the Flying Saucer,

and they want to use this structure
simply to promote their сommerce.

But commerce is a temporary situation.

The best architecture covers a
longer period of time than our life span.

– I was given a death sentence.

They said that I should
have been dead a month ago.

I’ve got cancer.

– But you’ve got such a force!

– And I am holding on just
because I’m contrarian...

– That’s right. Hold on.

I’m really glad that today I saw
you the way I saw you as a student

who came from Siberia
and was alien to Ukraine.

You were not accepted here because
you have grand ideas and you share them.

– Thank you.

When I was a child,

I was sent to a concentration camp.

My father was first exiled
there with my mother.

And then from Kirensk along
the Lena River we were sent here

when I was a year old –
right here in the far north.

It was a Siberian concentration camp.

There were many languages there.

There were Armenians and Jews,
there were Germans, there were British.

Everyone was there.

And everyone spoke a different language.

And in this mass of languages,

I decided to be independent.

I created my own language.

And it stayed with me.

Like a bird named Phoenix,

Ukraine

will be revived

all over the place

as soon as

the wicked

power

of money

which only

benefits the crooks

burns down

in a fire

of ruin

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As an architect,
can you tell me,

why do we need
these frescoes here?

Can you explain it to me?

– Me? No.

Nobody asked me. They
just painted them like that.

– As a practicing architect,
I’m familiar with a situation

when the client simply dictates
the architectural solutions,

even those related to colour…

– In architecture, this
has always been the case.

It’s been always dictated.

Back then, the dictate was
ideological, and now it’s economical.

But that’s still
ideology all the same.

I think that we can still have
colour music on this wall.

Music doesn’t
exist without rhythm.

Let’s say that this
is an orchestra;

and this is a solo part.

And this is what links them.

They wanted to remove these blocks.

I asked them: why do
you want to remove those?

They said they
wanted to restore them.

Why are these blocks important?

They actually form the rhythm which
holds this musical composition together.

– The reality of our country always
makes everyone assume the worst.

– And our experience too.

– If they start building something
near a government institution,

we assume they’ll
seize the property.

If an architectural
monument is involved,

we assume it will be destroyed.

– I have always insisted, and I still
insist now that architecture is also music.

But in their project, they
removed this rhythm...

This shouldn’t be done,

– What rhythm?

– This shouldn’t be done, because
rhythm is the basis of music.

Similarly, the objects they are planning
must also be in a kind of harmony,

because this is a city.

– Believe me, this
agreement is under the

close watch of all law
enforcement agencies.

We will meet in about a month,

and you will show how
this architectural decision

looks in general, as a whole.

– The design process
is an intimate one,

so it takes time to
consider all the fire codes

and urban planning regulations…

If you’ve got a
musical perception,

then you perceive everything as
music – whether it’s good or bad.

Even the landscape.

Even the city landscape.
Anything.

That is, this is music
reborn inside you each time,

and everything you see
is perceived as a movie,

like a moving object.

It’s just the object
itself is not moving,

like in a movie, but
you are moving inside it.

You sculpt this
composition in your mind.

And in architecture, it’s
already been assembled.

– Here’s our hall.

I assembled it based
on several drawings.

What do you think?

– Let’s imagine we’re
flying in a spaceship.

And you’re seeing
this interior every day.

So the interior shouldn’t
be driving you crazy, right?

And I think this wall should be
dark too – of one scale with this one.

My roots are in realist art,
even more so – in nature.

Because we receive
information primarily from nature.

An atom, if analyzed, consists of
positive protons and negative electrons.

Together, it is a synthesis.

So, the harmony does not
exist without conjunction.

The harmony of spheres is
harmony between types of art

and within the means of art there
is also the harmony of spheres.

Aristotle spoke about
this 2300 years ago.

He said, in fact,
there's no difference

between music and
colour sensations.

I consider myself
a realist to the core,

but in the 1960s I was
accused of making abstract art

and they warned me that I’d
go to jail if I promote my art.

Well, I didn’t want
to go to jail, because

I already knew
how life is there...

Well, I had a criminal record.

A twenty-year sentence.

I had a conflict with a
party member in Moscow,

I told him he was a scum,

and so I tore up my
Communist Youth ID.

That was considered an act of

counter-revolutionary propaganda.
Even more so because it was in public.

I’ve spent eight months
in a concentration camp.

Then, the military came.

We were all lined up, looked over,
and a medical exam was conducted.

And then they
talked to everyone,

'Now... Your criminal
record is removed, but

you go to
a special school.

If you agree, you sign up'.

The fact is that
when you sign up for this,

you’re cleared from the
criminal record automatically.

So I signed up. I didn't
want 20 years of camps.

But I didn't finish this school.

I got bitten by a tick,

and I ended up in the hospital.

An encephalitic tick gave
me brain inflammation.

I’ve been a little
crazy ever since.

And when I got out
with a medical exemption

and with my
criminal record cleared,

I was no longer
liable for military duty.

So I went to an art school.

– Some of my artworks

were banned at
different points in history.

– Well, of course…

– Right now, these works
are allowed to be exhibited,

but the others are not, still.

– Five more years will pass,
and those will be allowed too.

– I’m not gonna be
alive by that time.

– Please stop that!

– Well, because I’m a contrarian,

I want to live till I’m 90.

– Everyone is looking
at our alternative plans.

– This is what we
think about restoration.

What is and what should be.

What can be fixed.

This is an option for
the colour music design.

It can change according
to musical composition.

This is a new
version of the stage.

The public was strongly
against the connection

of this building with
the shopping area.

Because their function
is completely different,

it is impossible
to connect them.

So we suggested an
option of combining the two

in a harmonious ensemble that

would not absorb the
Flying Saucer at all.

But they still do
not agree with me.

They are currently erecting
something for themselves…

– Do you have a camera?
Take a picture of me with my teacher!

Go stand right there!

Take a picture of
me with my teacher!

– Amazing, sure
enough, amazing...

Did you paint all this by
yourself? Every piece?

Of course!

– These are the famous four
horsemen of the apocalypse.

One white, one red,
one black, one purple.

– I thought they were
the four fabled knights.

There were three of them
in the fable, you did four.

Let's go see the violins.

Holy shit...

– A Tchaikovsky violin. Do
you recognize Tchaikovsky?

– Yes.

– Wow. Impressive.
How could this be done?

Amazing, sure enough, amazing.

Kyiv the Hero City, right?

I will buy this
entire collection

and put it up at my
place, in the mall.

There, at Ocean
mall, I'll display it.

Shake you wits
awake, you brutes!

You demented children!

Look upon your native country,

On this peaceful eden;

Love with overflowing heart

This expanse of ruin,

Break your chains

And live as brothers!

– My dear and
lovely human being!

Come see me for
dinner, I’ll be waiting.

– Wait...

What's with the Flying Saucer?

– I'll tell you everything.
I'll see you next week!

– For dinner.
– Dinner, dinner, next week.

I'll show you everything then.

– They are just changing the cushions!
Old ones to new ones, that's all.

They’re not doing anything else.

– So they’re replacing the chairs?
– Well, for now, just the cushions.

In order to be able to sit
comfortably in decent chairs,

he says, just to have
some kind of a hall.

– Project... Do
they have project?

– Have you seen their project?

But how can they do anything
without a blueprint, I don't understand?

– We are doing it
together now.

We are doing it
together with you.

– Can you imagine
there are architects

who are afraid to
reveal their names?

– Yes, it's just great.

In his bureau they sign a
non-disclosure agreement

about what is happening there.

They record all
the information on

flash drives, there
are no outgoing emails.

There is video surveillance.

It’s a serious organization.

The Flying Saucer was
functioning normally.

Everyone was happy,

except for one person…

– Let’s skip this. I understand who.
– The developer wasn’t happy.

So he sent his people

and all these chairs
were ripped out.

For what? So that people
wouldn’t assemble there.

– So you’re the host, right?
– Yes!

What’s our agenda today?

Our meeting is
concerning the renovation of

the building located at
180, Antonovych street.

People call it the Flying Saucer.
As I understand, it’s your brainchild?

At the previous meeting here

we were promised that
we’d see the project.

The project is
missing again.

So, this discussion
makes no sense.

We have discussed this problem a
hundred times, with journalists too.

– Dear colleagues, I
want you to understand.

We had no idea what
we would face there.

– Sit down, please!
– It's fine.

We’ve been treading
water for a year now.

They still haven’t
shown me their designs.

I’m an architect, words
don’t mean much to me.

Give me the designs
and I’ll see how they’re

going to use the Flying
Saucer building itself.

I'm really interested how they’re
going to use the Flying Saucer.

How could you merge
science with commerce?

It’s not clear to me.

What does Vagif say?

'I don’t want no regular
paint there! I will gold-plate it!'

I said, don’t do that,
this is not a church!

– Who is Vagif?

– He didn’t actually
mean that about the gold…

– Vagif is the one who’s
providing all the funding.

– The issues that concern the developer who’s
building something on his private territory

are outside the scope of the
Ministry of Education and Science…

– We see that everything is
happening behind the scenes.

– Why is this renovation
being carried out

without the participation
of its project’s author?

– Do you have an apartment?

An apartment, or a house?
Do you live somewhere?

When you renovated
your flat, did you also invite

the project’s author to
approve this renovation?

– Hello. Could you call
Florian, because we’ve

been calling, knocking
on his door, no reply.

– Well, try calling him again.
– Yes, I have been calling non stop.

– He should be waiting.

He is supposed to go to
the hospital today. Or a clinic.

Doctors believe that the most
unbearable pain comes from cancer.

And it has begun.

– And what kind of film
was this supposed to be?

– It was a film dedicated
to water and trees.

Humans finally realize that

they are not the navel of the Earth.

They must understand that,
while destroying nature,

they are destroying himself.

and if you’ve already
begun to reckon with nature,

you need to understand that
you are spawned from the cosmos.

And since you’re spawned from the
cosmos – your psychology must be different.

Not the psychology
of the master,

who can do
whatever he wants.

You can’t just do it.

The Malevich Centre was classified
as an unauthorized construction

and was pulled down
by Moscow authorities.

There are no official
Malevich museums in Russia.

This art-centre was
created by volunteers who

organized exhibitions
and guided tours there.

Before the Malevich centre was pulled down, there
was a long-standing conflict with local residents.

They brought a complaint against
the unauthorized construction.

They would also destroy
the exhibited works saying that

they don't want to have
'those disgusting things' around.

As for my violins,
I think I did all I could.

It doesn’t matter if I
make another violin or not.

And as for the architecture...

You see – they’re going to
destroy the Flying Saucer.

I’m being told that
I will die tomorrow.

But I’m not ready to die yet.

My autobiography is not yet completed.

I’ve got many things to finish

just need to sit down and
finish with no distractions.

That is, I need to
complete my own life.

And what will happen
to my work afterwards?

Excuse me!

The destroyers of
this building tell us

that there’s no
need for science,

here’s no need for
technical progress.

There’s just a need for commerce.

And Vagif Aliyev,
this huckster,

managed to persuade
the administration,

persuade the
Minister of Education

that he was taking
the Flying Saucer

in order to make the
main entrance to the mall.

What has Vagif done now?

He has dug up till here, he
has brought down all this soil.

What an idiocy!

There was no need to destroy this loess,
this well-established soil foundation.

The well-established loess is
very strong, it’s almost like concrete.

But if you soak it, the whole
Flying Saucer will collapse.

The shopping mall is flooded,
including Auchan and other shops.

The parking garage with
cars inside is also flooded.

– Where were people
with burns sent?

– People were evacuated
to the emergency hospital.

– Is this going to affect the subway?

– We don’t have any info on that.

We’ll soon find
out more details

about the construction
of Ocean Plaza.

Was it in accordance to
the state construction norms?

Who issued the permits and why?

What was the cause
of this... this event?

When the rescuers
arrived, the shopping mall

administration didn’t
even let them inside.

They told them they
would use their own pumps.

The management of Ocean
Plaza refused to pump out the water.

So far, 7 people are injured.

They were burned to varying degrees,
the medics are determining their condition.

The water was eroding
the soil and in the end it slid.

I can’t tell you exactly how
many collapses are there.

But, visually, what you see
is that the asphalt collapsed.

People really panicked, the
water temperature was very high.

When the rescuers arrived,

the situation was really tense.

The rescuers were carrying
off the survivors one by one.

This painting and
these poems here

are a denial of the
path of capitalism.

And it's now clear to many

and acceptable to many.

Because the path of capitalism
is a thing of the past,

and we are now
going back in history.

Human-centrism
has reached the point

that nature is no longer
able to cope with humans.

Nature takes revenge.

And it will keep doing so.

Therefore, the role
of philosophy now

is to figure this
out and finally

limit the aggression of
humankind towards nature.

Here is to the fact that
I lived to at least 90.

It is a kind of
achievement in itself.

– A month ago you were
not as optimistic about it.

– To your health!

Two month ago I was told

that I had one week left to live.

But I’m a contrarian.

– Right, be a contrarian like that.

And I have lived to 90.

On the one hand, being
90 years old is nothing good.

On the other hand,
it is ok, because

the process of cancer
spreading is slow.

That is, age works
for me, oddly enough.

Just as human life is finite,

the life of human civilization,

of the whole galaxy –

it is mortal.

Our galaxy is mortal.

Just as every person should

behave with
dignity before dying,

civilization should
behave with dignity.

Because human civilization, when

compared to an unknown world,

is like one divided by infinity.

In mathematics, this equals zero.

This is our entire culture.

This is our entire ideology.

This is our entire knowledge

in comparison

with the infinity of the universe,

and its law.

We can formulate
anything we want

for our own
self-affirmation.

But the result is zero.

Still, this is not
a simple zero.

From my point of view, this
should be a beautiful zero.