Picture houses: a last glimpse of Moscow’s beautiful and derelict Soviet cinemas

> What compelled you to start documenting them? I perceive them as rare, unique objects and often the movie theater is the only handsome building in a district so my urge was just to keep them in a time, place and memory through documenting. These cinemas are frozen in time, being parted from movies but their identity preserved; a frontispiece and a name.