The war launched on Ukraine has, more than ever before, brought to public attention the concentrationist universe that contemporary Russia is for a large part of its population, to that segment who refuse to sell their freedom of thought and action for a few crumbs from the leaders' table or even just in exchange for a peaceful existence. The protagonist in Agniya Galdanova's film, a queer artist who goes by the name of Gena Marvin, is undoubtedly part of this unruly population – she is, in fact, among its most spectacular representatives. From the provincial town of her birth, built on the site of a former gulag, to the heart of Moscow, the 21-year-old woman displays her body with mad courage, clad in surrealist creations and during imagined apocalyptic situations. Each such public performance, she hopes, will send a shockwave through the social, moral, and even aesthetic landscape of Putinist Russia. The driving force behind Gena's actions is not the desire to provoke, but that to have her existence acknowledged, however contrary it may be to the sensibilities in power. In the artist's eyes, this is worth the risk of the harshest repression. (Liri Alienor Chapelan)