Lénine en pensant

In 2005 Sophie Nys travelled to UlanUde the capital of the mountainous Buryat Republic in eastern Siberia to film the largest existing statue of Lenin the founding father and first General Secretary and Premier of the Soviet Union Only the statues monumental head was completed and we see it from all angles close up and further away in Nys grainy super 8film Beyond the subjects surly infinite gaze life in the towns main square takes its daily course one that no longer corresponds with the utopian vision of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov