May, 2023

Currently in FIlm Festival Circuit

A claustrophobic expedition into the hauntological heart of darkness, my short “Tomorrow Was War” presents a dystopian Russian police state. Following a transgender man, Shura, clad in white Adidas and hiding his surgery scars under a windbreaker, the film jumps between then and now, color and black-and-white, imagined scenarios and auto-fiction. The film is set on a New Year’s Eve somewhere in 202? when we witness Shura’s psychological unravelling after two police officers barge into his provincial Russian apartment.

Short film directed by Adamska Elizaveta Rakhilkina

Cinematography by mikey baratta

Sound Design by Eleanor Jones

Production Design by Winnie Wine

Sound Mixing by Alí Meyer

Starring Nicodemus Cor Leonis, MJ Cabigting-Steele, Olga Kravtsova, Valentina Zaitseva

Features art work by Free Soul Bassibet, Afroditi Psarra, James William Blake, Ren Han, Nicolás Kisic Aguirre, Esteban Agosin & Tivon Rice