The story of a man's journey. Leonid Tishkov was born in a small town in the Ural Mountains in 1953. He graduated from medical school in Moscow in 1978, but soon changed his career as a surgeon to become an artist. He admits his medical education helps him in his art. "I very often use special drawings from medical books and I also use very special themes from biological science". His cast of characters includes walking stomachs, deep-sea divers, elephants and assorted human organs. He became famous for the creation of a dabloid, "an absolutely anthropomorphic creature, made up of an autonomous leg with a small head at its top". Tishkov's continually evolving narrative and space is mapped in drawings, prints, illustrated books, paintings, sculptures, plays and video installations. He has published some of his own work, and the work of other artists, through his own DABLUS PRESS and DABLUS Foundation. Today his work is widely shown throughout Europe and the United States, as well as in Russia. Nikodim is a new project of the films' series which included two other videos Pictures of Wind and Air Creatures. And if the first two works present symbols of sky and air, the last film offers a figure of a man, an artist himself.