This video was made as part of the Monument to Arnold Schwarzenegger as Terminator T-800, to be erected in Graz, Austria (Arnold's hometown) in 2003, Graz's year as European Cultural Capital.
Q: How did you come to love the Terminator.
A.Ch.: He is the incarnation of technical genius.
V.E.: He is the incarnation of honesty, stupidity and frankness. And we Russians always stand for straightforwardness and truth.
Q: And which Terminator do you prefer - the first one or the second?
V.E.: I already don't remember what the differences between them are.
A.Ch.: The main thrust of both films is action and violence. It is immoral to present a cult hero as a negative type, thus in the second film the director made him a positive one. But for us it doesn't matter if he is a positive or negative character.
V.E.: Good violence is interesting too. We like dualism.
Q.: When you were shooting these videos what did you like most - crushing small Terminators or to dying under the cyborg's iron feet?
V.E.: To die, it is so delightful.
A.Ch.: You are rolling on the floor with your tongue hanging out, resting. Running is more tiring.
Q.: When Terminator 2 came out in Russia, we all saw it and invented numerous quantities of intellectual rubbish. For example, there was one theory that Schwarzenegger's iron futuristic Terminator symbolized the avant-garde and modernism.
V.E.: We also have a religious interpretation.
A.Ch.: It's a new model of heaven and hell. When these diabolical machines are upgraded, the old models are forced to pass over to the good side. Good is outmoded evil.

Aristarkh Chernyshev and Vladislav Efimov
from an interview with I. Kulik