- Skyscraper for the film "Under Electric Clouds"
- location | Saint Petersburg
- year | 2014
- crew | Anna Volyntseva (Tkacheva), Andrey Volyntsev
The project became the winner of an architectural competition held as part of the production of Aleksey German Jr.’s film "Under Electric Clouds". In accordance with the director’s vision, the twenty-storey building–resembling a broken, stunted plant–emerges as a key visual symbol of the film, a metaphor for the fate of an entire generation of talented yet unclaimed professionals.
One of them is the film’s protagonist, an architect working on a skyscraper project that will never be completed. The building’s incompleteness functions not merely as a narrative device, but as an image of lost hopes, arrested movement, and an unrealized future.
The film stars Louis Frank, Merab Ninidze, and Chulpan Khamatova. It was selected for the main competition of the 65th Berlin International Film Festival, where it received the Silver Bear for outstanding artistic achievement.
Architect Andrey Volyntsev:
"A building that will never be constructed offers far greater freedom for imagination. We wanted to emphasize the bionic quality of the form, to give it a vegetal, almost organic character. Through this search, a structure emerged that appears different from every angle–an embodiment of organic asymmetry and the impossibility of exact repetition inherent in living nature."
Within the film, the skyscraper exists as an architectural phantom–a trace of the unfulfilled, a silent witness to a time in which designing the future proved more important than the future itself.
