Project Detail

The End of Times

A woman paints on a large canvas in bright colours

Synopsis

Caught between her indigenous Buryat roots—where art is a shamanic window between worlds—and a Western market that treats culture as a commodity, artist Yuma Radne constructs a monumental canvas to confront the psychological distortions of colonization at the edge of an irreversible era.

"Either you make art, or you suffer. It’s like a curse." For painter Yuma Radne, the act of creation is not an aesthetic choice, but an ancestral code carried in the blood. Moving from a remote Siberian village to the high-stakes European art world, Yuma finds herself navigating a surreal landscape where sacred cultural identity is rapidly converted into a luxury product.
Through intimate studio dialogues and raw philosophical reflections, the film captures the gruelling physical and mental labour behind her graduation masterpiece, The End of Times. Centred around a gargantuan erupting booze (a traditional Buryat dumpling) mutated into an absurd, monumental symbol of a colonised and erased national identity, the film transcends a typical artist portrait. It becomes a vital, cosmic meditation on why humanity continues to create art in the face of systemic collapse—and a powerful testament to an indigenous culture refusing to be reduced to a souvenir.

Details

Year
2026
Type of project
Features
Running time
68 min
Format
4:3
Director
Luca Anzalone 1st Feature
Producer
Luca Anzalone
Co-Producer
Luca Anzalone
Executive Producer
Luca Anzalone
Editor
Luca Anzalone
Screenwriter
Luca Anzalone
Director of Photography
Luca Anzalone
Production Designer
Luca Anzalone
Sound
Luca Anzalone
Composer
Celine Dessberg
Principal cast
Yuma Radne
Featured Artwork Nicole Eisenman
Weeks on the Train (2015)
Featured Artwork Nicole Eisenman
Morning Studio (2016)
Featured Artwork Nicole Eisenman
Selfie
Featured Artwork Arang Choi
"Behind Open Eyes"
Song Khatkhur Zu
Niislel Hot
Song Céline Dessberg
Selenge
Song Céline Dessberg
Comment Disparaître
Song Céline Dessberg
Emee ovoo
Song Céline Dessberg
YATQA

Categories

Production Status

Production Company

Luca Anzalone (He/Him)

Mixed Media
@lucaanzalonestudio

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