Micro-Films

I'm going to use CouchSurfing as the main way to travel through Europe. I plan to spend 3-7 days in each new house and during this time I will make one micro-film about the house and the people who live there. Duration of the movie 3-5 minutes. This is my way of saying "thank you" for the accommodation and food. Then I will make selection of the most interesting micro-films and will use them to create a great film.

Artist Statement «Time and Place»

Life goes unnoticed, and we can’t return our time. Therefore, I am motivated by a desire to fix reality. I feel the camera is the best tool to preserve the past and reflect the present. Besides filmmaking (documentary and fiction) it is a chance to immerse oneself into an unfamiliar environment and to live a different life.

The filming process gives me the opportunity to travel around the world and see life with all its variety. An interesting location is a starting point for me to develop new ideas for a movie. I am interested in the possibility of a documentary film with the highly visible subjective views of the author, when the director tells the story in the first person or he is directly involved in the events. My technique is a mixture of documentary, feature film and video art.

The film is a way to communicate with many people because this language of images is a universal language of communication. A good result for me is when many other people like to watch my films and they understand the message. I like it when everyone amongst the audience understands something special and personal. I feel that I have concluded a stage of my life when I finish a new film; and it's time to start a new one.

Anima

"Gender" (course work)

Genre: documentary / film-portrait

Duration: 8 min. 51 seconds.

2012

35 mm/PAL/16: 9/color/stereo

The main character of this film is an andrologist. She talks about how to be a man and how to be a women. She wears a leather jacket, heavy boots. She working in city polyclinic and besides she makes theatrical productions in the local club. She lives with her daughter without her husband and believes that love - is neurosis reaction and that she not affected by this.

I make a short film. The idea of ​​the film - a man in everyday life is constantly in contact with the nature that surrounds us. Often we are not aware of this process to the end, but it happens all the time. For example, at this moment.

We commonly eat plants and animals. Here we also use nature as a source of inspiration.

The second objective of this film - to capture and convey the impression of this place, where I am now (I mean i-park). So every morning I take my camera, I walk in the woods and shoot anything that seems interesting to me. I shoot the same people who are here with me, because they too are part of this space. They also interact daily with wildlife.

For example, Michael uses a dead tree as a material for sculpture. For other nature - a source of inspiration.

In order to realize this idea, I use dual screen. When a viewer sees on the screen at the same time the two pictures he mentally tries to match them with one another. As a result of this encounter, he finds new meaning in this picture. I came across in one shot two pictures to show the interaction between man and nature.

Now the film is slightly surreal. I think this is due to the fact that the forest gives me that impression. When I'm alone I walk in the woods, I think he is a living organism. He lives his life. In this forest a lot of installations, art objects left by previous residents. They are harmoniously co-exist with wildlife. This produces a very strange, somewhat mystical experience. I think this movie called "The Enchanted Forest" or something like that.

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