Anastasiia Bannikova

Fearing that she's the last of her kind, Cora sets out to find her long lost sister in a dark kingdom that the world has forgotten.

“Crying Applause” is about a woman in NYC that enters unknown realms of her mind after an unexpected incident. Images and sounds twist and distort until she can no longer distinguish the real from the imaginary. Has she gone mad? Or is she merely awakening to a hidden reality? Sensory impressions, reality and hallucinations mix into a cocktail that leads to an inevitable end.

In an authoritarian world, a young worker is promoted to handle the most valuable item in existence when a mysterious woman appears and offers an escape.