The project "Explanatory video dictionary" or "Soul mirror. The explanatory dictionary of the post-Soviet man"

The general idea of the project. 
It’s only after having given a thing a name that we can talk about it for unnamed things don’t exist. Only having defined properties of a thing we can grasp its essence. Having placed notions in the system of axes good-and-bad, true-and-false we construct a world, like God, dividing the light from the dark. We are children of general fundamental concepts of good and evil, and of a historical incest between these notions. Yet within our recollection, the terms “speculator”, “businessman” (or as Mayakovsky put it “the owner of factories, newspapers, steamboats” /in his poem “Mr. Twister”/) have changed their juridical as well as everyday household value from adversity and despise to envy and admiration.
Can we talk about the timelessness of definition of values? Words-notions as specific verbal forms are constant, but their interpretation, defining their contents, is variable and determined by the context of the present time. Independent of our will, our personal and intimate conception of essence of things is just a mirror reflecting the face of our epoch.

The compilers of the video-dictionary Oleg Arnautov and Vera Nekhlyudova have taken the trouble of making up a kind of an explanatory dictionary consisting of video-records of utterances of people differing from each other by their status, professions and world outlook. Military men, officials, businessmen, politicians, artistic intelligentsia interpret significant and general words-notions of values:  
Life and Death, Good and Evil, Love, Conscience, Freedom, Fatherland, Service, Faith and etc. 

The authors of the project highlight the soul of the man reared up in the Soviet times who has found himself, as historical fate has willed, in a country of consumerist consciousness and imported ideals. 

The idea by Oleg Arnautov, Yuri Pantyurhine
The project is carried out by:
Oleg Arnautov – writer, director, camera-man, designer 
Vera Nekhlyudova – co-writer, producer.

Giving a hand in the preparation of the project are:
Yuri Pantyurhine, Sergei Arnautov, Natalia Voinich, Inga Rostova, Dmitriy Severyukhin, Assya Filippova, Myth, Svetlana Kolossova, Valeriy Valran, Andrei Tchezhin, Maia Shenkevich.

Featuring in the project are:
Artists: 
Andrei Bartenev,
Yuri Zlotnikov,
Sergei Mironenko,
Andrei Filippov,
Vladimir Dubossarsky,
Konstantin Zvezdochetov,
Fransisco Infante,
Nonna Goryunova,
Envil Kassimov (from Izhevsk),
Aleksandr Tokarev,
Georguyi Puzenkov,
Omar Godinez (Cuba),
Vladimir Yakobchyuk (S.Petersburg),
Oleg Yakhnin (S.Petersburg),
Vladimir Ovchynnikov (S.Petersburg),
Sergei Kovalsky (S.Petersburg),

Evguenyi Orlov, director of the art-center “Pushkinskaya 10”(S.Petersburg),
Andrei Tchezhin, photographer(S.Petersburg),
Dmitryi Prigov, poet, artist
Pyotr Brandt, poet (S.Petersburg),
Maria Arbatova, writer,
Lev Rubenstein, poet,
Dmitriy Severyukhin, poet, encyclopedist (S.Petersburg),
Jossif Bakstein, curator,
Elena Kuprina, curator-arts-critic,
Valeryi Valran, curator-artist (S.Petersburg),
Vladimir Frolov and Dmitryi Kuznetsov, gallery (pARTner project Gallery),
Mikhail Sidlin, critic,
Filippova A.L., director of the project “Fabrika (The Facroty)”,
Viktor Sobolenko, composer (S.Petersburg),
Bartschevsky M.Yu., jurist,
Zhirinjvsky V.V., leader of the LDPR,
Leader of anarchists, having an illegal status (S.Petersburg),
Mletchin L.M., political correspondent of the chief editorial office of socio-political programs “TV-Centre”,
Filatov S.A., president of a foundation of socio-political projects,
Alshibaya M.M., heart surgeon,
Nassirov R.M., general-colonel of the International committee for the struggle with organized crime,
Melnikov P.I., general-lieutenant,
Mikhailov A.G., general-lieutenant of police,
Kolossova S.Yu., president of the PR-company “Staraya ploschad’”,
Rappoport A., psychiatrist, actor, presenter of the TV program “An hour before midnight”,
Nikolaev N.N., president of the TV and radio broadcasting company “Civilization”,
Kira Burenina, chief editor of the magazine “Lisa”,
Podoinitsyn A.V., president of “The national league of administrators”,
Zaitsev V.V., documentary film maker (TV broadcasting company SGU TV),
Osipenko T.V., vice-president of the All-Russian bank of regions’ development,
Podoinitsyna O., vice-president, head of the PR department of the “Deutche bank”,
Archbishop of Moscow, Metropolitan of All-Russia of the Verily Orthodox church Raphail,
Alekseeva L.M., president of the Moscow Helsinki group,
Rybakov Yu.A., human rights fighter, (S.Petersburg),
Lapshina N.N., obstetrician,
Gersh L.L., documentary film maker,
Ruzin V.D., vice-president of the Eurasian academy of television and radio,
Livshitz V.G., adviser of the president of the National association of TV and radio broadcasters,
Shinkevich M.S., general director of “MUREL”,
Granovskaya R.M., psycologist, (S.Petersburg),
Volkov Yu.I., mathematician (S.Petersburg),
Sergei, jobber,
Igor Naumkin, jobless,
Aleksandr Sukhankin, car mechanic,
Ira, saleswoman