Eurasia Questions on Happiness

Assembling cinematic sequences shot in the Southeastern Urals and in Macedonia archival footage and animation Eurasia Questions on Happiness sets forth on a journey towards the Eurasian steppe where it meets the New Silk Road Imagining a fractured continent in the thrall of selflearning data sites that trigger world events the film confronts various forms of hoax from cut and paste political doctrines to neoclassical facade architectures Mapping ideological and political currents that are presently unraveling the European Union Eurasia describes fake news as a manmade proxy of the indifference that an artificial intelligence may feel toward the human condition Through modes of science fiction documentary and folk tale Eurasia creates an immersion within layers of media production wrapping facts in fictions and fictions in facts