Vladimir Nikolaev

Three children from an ordinary Moscow family—a fifteen-year-old robotics fan, a twelve-year-old blogger, and a seven-year-old animal-obsessed girl—suddenly discover that their father is not an engineer at all, but a genuine secret agent. The entire family embarks on a life-threatening journey from Moscow to Siberia, to a research base hidden in the taiga wilderness, where an incredibly powerful, previously unknown energy has been discovered. The children must unravel the mystery of this extraordinary energy, linked to Russia's historical artifacts, and protect it from the advances of a powerful corporation seeking to exploit it for its own gain.

Philosopher and heart transplant recipient Jean-Luc Nancy meditates on the history and integrity of bodies in a number of visual and literary passages exploring his onscreen presence, a surgical organ in search of a body and an unaccounted for, displaced invertebrate at sea. Outlandish is a journey between shores and environments, the touching of and proximity between bodies, the vanishing and appearance of crew, dimensions of form and, above all, our relations with strange foreign bodies.

Natasha Demkina is the girl with X-ray eyes. Her claim, to be able to see unaided, directly inside of bodies.