September 9th | 9 сентября

9.37 a.m. - Ana's apartment

• Getting myself together, after yesterday events. Remembering what I can.

12.28 a.m. - =

• Gemma confirms that there will be a screening later at the kinoteatre pioner
• I will meet Katia around 2 p.m. at VDNH.

2.30 p.m. - VDNH Metro station

• I meet Katia. But I made a mistake. I though we would have time to walk around the parc, and then I'll go meet Ana and Gemma for the screening. But the screening is in an hour. So I call a taxi, and we go there with Katia. Katia and Ana knows each other from a new year party that occured a few years ago.

4 p.m. - Кинотеатр «Пионер»

• We arrive with Katia. I meet Ana's friends or colleagues. Every body seat and the screening start.
• A few films are student films from Moscow Cinema School.

Around 6 p.m. - =

• It actually was five short films. There is a presentation after. One of the guys I was drinking with, on the bench last time, is the artistic director of the theatre, the one that chooses the movies that will be shown. Most of the interviewed people seem to be under thirty. There are Ana, Katia, Sasha, and friends. After the screening we're all hungry, and hop in a taxi toward a restaurant, near Улица 1905 года.
• Svetlana, who was there for the first screening I attended, was there too. One of the movies she directed has been screened tonight.
• They are clubs around the bar. We are many, so we separate in one big table and a smaller one, where a man with long attached hair and glasses sits with two actresses. I will not get to know who he was. I'm at the bigger table, and some people speak english or french like Marina, or a young actor of one of the movies, or Ana's boyfriend, Katya... I can communicate with everyone, almost.
• Great time with everybody, drinking, talking cinema, taking pictures.
• Everybody pays his part of dinner, by bank transfer plus ten pour cent... It's a weird way to pay, but that's what the waiter told us to do...

Later - At the restaurant

• We are still talking, Gemma, Sasha and I. I get invited to go to Sasha's place with Gemma. But at the same time I receive messages from Arthemii, that invites me to Mutabor, a club I've been hearing about. It seems to be an institution in Russia.
• I toss a coin to decide if I go at Sasha's or Mutabor: Mutabor it is. I say to Gemma that I will be a good boy and be back home with the first metro. Because I told them about the different types of vitamins I was using the other day, and they were devastated. It was funny because I think their reaction wouldn't have been the same if I told them I did other things, but when I said the words, they went "Hooorrrhhh!". It was amusing to me. Gemma gave me a little lesson, and was worried about me, so this I why I told her I'll be a good boy, home "early" (at 6 a.m.).

3 a.m.

• I text Arthemii that I'm on my way to Mutabor.
• I go there by metro. I'm a bit cold.
• I hear the music, but I get lost trying to find the entrance. It takes me twenty minutes to find the place. It's in the middle of big construction sites.
• I arrive at an industrial complex, not far from a future residential area.
• Arthemii invite me. He gets out to give me a green wrist band, and I get back in with him. He makes me visit the place. It's huge, and their are scenes everywhere, a lot of people, beautiful installation and decoration, the sound well balanced.

• We go to area that seem to be restricted, behind the scenes, and to the top floor where there is a restaurat. I get a few shots offered.
• There, we talk about the parties I make in Paris with my friends (that are at this very moment gathered together to plan the next event somewhere in Paris, or around it). We are still at the underground stage, and it has nothing to do in comparison with this huge place, with thousands of people, and more than fourty five artists this weekend. I say that I would like the group to go a bit more professional with a real structure, income plans and schedule. So he gives me some advices, and the main one is to build a community around us, so that we have a group of people that would come to our events.
• They have a little merchandising shop. They also have bars and other goods, but to get them, you have to pay with a token. It means that you pay with real money for a ticket, and then you pay your drinks or whatever with your ticket. It must be a trick to ease the accounting or avoid restrictions around alcohol selling.
• I get introduced to Murad. He manages an art gallery, and works for an oil company. I discover that Arthemii also makes material art. It's structures in colored glass, that reminds me of the architecture of the Louis Vuitton foundation in Paris.
• I talk with him for half an hour and he leaves me while we are on the main stage. I walk around the club.
• I text Arthemii that I'm about to leave. I meet him and he asks if I need vitamins. The metro isn't open yet si I answer positively.
• We go back one of the Dj booth, where I had the occasion to meet Dj from portugal, that owns a club in Lisboa. After exchanging contact, I get offered a bottle of water and some different vitamins from different people in the dark area behind the dj booth. Just enough to stay awake, since I made a promess to Gemma to be a good boy.
• I go back dancing a little, but not for long.

Around 5.30 a.m. - Metro to Ana's place

• I get back to the apartment.