It's a short film/promo of a debut collection of poems "Excavating the Sky" by Konstantin Kulakov.
In his poems, Konstantin Kulakov labors to relate the inner spirituality of his Russian background to the fragmentation of a market-driven New World. Whether it is his Muslim-Christian relationship, his dance with natural science, or his struggle to expose continued US raciality, Kulakov seeks the contradictions in everything, "mixing words to bring-out sparks." What emerges is a spiritual language that resists the exclusionary tendencies of the 21st century and offers subtle flashes of possibility. Throughout, there is breaking, but there is also unfolding.
To learn more about Konstantin Kulakov, visit his website: konstantinkulakov.com
Film by Eugene Simonov
eugenesimonov.com
NYC, 2015
