Project name: Marathon
Medium: Video
Duration: 12'17''
Year: 2018
Tags: #community #obsession #relations
Credits: Ksenia Bashmakova, friends



The film is dedicated to the annual 36-hour Marathon on "What? Where? When?" quiz game in Pushchino, Russia.
Community sports game "What? Where? When" was formed in the early 90's as a reaction for the increasing lack of meaning and purpose in life after breakdown of USSR. The Game is based on the principles of pure knowledge. It has only one purpose — answer questions. The Game creates a field that contains the whole amount of available facts and possible links between them.

36 hours long marathon in Puschino is an annual event. Players from all over Russia come to play continuously in What? When? Where? game, leading themselves to intellectual and physical exhaustion.