A laconic parable from Yakutia is a story about a truck driver who, for the sake of profit, sells chip liquor to his native village and does not notice how fate bills him. After the next flight, the hero finds himself trapped in the vast expanses of the north — and in the struggle for life, he goes through the most severe trials.

"Black Snow" is a movie about the attitude to other people’s lives and about what a person is ready for his own. There is snow around everyone, and what color it will be — everyone chooses for himself.

I am not satisfied with the current way of our society — corruption, consumerism, greed, selfishness, alcoholism. I don’t want my children to grow up in such a world. After all, we are rich not only in material goods.

With this film, I want to say that there are problems, and they are terrible, you need to shout about them. The world is changing very quickly, and in the pursuit of adapting to new foundations, we stop thinking about the most important things — mutual understanding, complicity, humanity.

Collaboration for me is one of the best ways to communicate and explore reality. I work in music, film sound, contemporary art, a bit of theatre. And working with Yakut filmmakers makes me every believe again in common sense, equality, dialogue and the possibility of co-creation. Yakut cinema is absolutely not provincial, very self-sufficient and imbued with the spirit of mutual respect and a conscious attitude to the world. The way the interaction is arranged in the industry and within the process of filmmaking is always could be seen and heard in the result. And in the Yakut cinema you can see what I idealistically imagine under the word "cinema" in general. I am very grateful to Stepan Burnashev for the fact that the approach I proposed was met by him with understanding and acceptance.

I asked him to write a few words about the film, its idea. He wrote to me "it shouldn’t be like this anymore", I wrote my own sound interpretation of each of these words, Stepan made an edit of these textures in according to the scenes of the movie, and I finally assembled it into the statement. This approach is simple, and certainly not new. But in Yakut cinema, like in many other ways of equal collaboration, it is possible, and I am grateful for this opportunity every time I work with Yakut filmmakers.