Although not always considered in this way, many theme parks resemble isolated countries – commercially-fuelled countries where the citizens pay to reside. This short propaganda film promotes Theme Parks World, a fictional establishment based on the world's most famous amusement parks. Its aim is to sell its appeal as a single, worldwide country and it certainly carries benefits that lack in our real-life polity.
Milena Bragina is an illustrator and film-maker currently based in Moscow, Russia. Her work observes life through exaggeration and often humour, it celebrates character, not by replicating conventional visual appeal but by bringing people and their situations to the viewer in a new light, like a theatre performance.
