29/11/2022 - Bulgarian-Canadian animator Theodore Ushev's first feature is an anti-utopia fairytale that questions scientific progress against the backdrop of post-communist decadence
29/11/2022 - Bulgarian-Canadian animator Theodore Ushev's first feature is an anti-utopia fairytale that questions scientific progress against the backdrop of post-communist decadence
Theodore Ushev to explore a dystopian future in Phi 1 618 cineuropa.net - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from cineuropa.net Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Blind Vaysha in 2017, is currently in post-production with his feature debut,
Phi 1.618, which will blend live-action footage with animation. The feature is being staged by Bulgarian production company Peripeteia Films, represented by
Orlin Ruevski and
The screenplay, written by Todorov and based on his own novel,
The Spinning Top, explores a dystopian future where science conquers death, and a nation of bio-titans, a breed of asexual, immortal men, has been created. The female sex and procreation have become obsolete. As the Earth turns toxic, the bio-titans are eager to colonise the cosmos on board a colossal spaceship, taking with them only one female body kept barely alive as a reminder of the troubled past. But everything changes when the immortal calligrapher Krypton (