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Russian animator/director Pasha Egorov created the music video for “Parabellum” by Russian pop group Masha i Medvedi (Masha and Bears). Here he tells us how an accidental fire turned into a work of art.

CF: How did you develop the concept for this film?

PE: The concept has arisen from love of the city of Sankt-Petersburg and bicycles.

The first desire was to spend time in the company of bicyclists (in Moscow there is a club of fans of exotic bicycles, Rastabike) on the coast of Neva in the fine city Sankt-Petersburg. Quickly and cheerfully [I wanted] to make a videoclip about that as we [rode] on the central streets of the northern capital of Russia. But during the trip [there was] a fire at the hotel. The cartridges and a video camera had burned up. Having returned to Moscow, I decided to [photograph the bicyclists], and as a background [inserted] photos of houses from Sankt-Petersburg.

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