Commercial Video Production

Just want to show you one of my "not art works" that l made (as an author and stage director) together with friends-colleagues few weeks ago. This is how we are surviving here in Russia while doing our art videos / films at the same time. It's low budget video, but it was very useful practical training for me. I got a lot of fun and some money from that project. Here we used work of artistical director, professional actors, make-up artist, sound engineer, etc. And Black Magic video camera, cyclorama, space lights, etc. as a technical basis.

Commercial (iPad App) from Roman Moshenskiy on Vimeo.

Trans-Siberian Railway

Video made by Stanislas Giroux. Three minutes of video for three weeks of travel, three countries, three cultures. He tooks a train ticket for the Trans-Siberian railway, in order to reach Beijing from Moscow, crossing Mongolia.

Seat 22 — Trans-Siberian Odyssey from Stanislas Giroux on Vimeo.

Muslims and Oil in Russia

This post is dedicated to Islam in Russia. Firstly, because I realized that not so many foreigners know that there are large Muslim regions in Russia. As well as a there are regions where most people are Buddhists or shamanists.

This town called Leninogorsk, which means literally - Lenin Hills. People call this place "oil town". It was built 60 years ago, because geologists have discovered large reserves of oil here. Oil pumps are everywhere in this region. Actually, it's a good object for meditation. These machines are continuously doing slow movements - up and down.

The Sea of Okhotsk オホーツク海

… but I got the biggest impression from the sea (as always). Magadan was built on the sea shore (the Sea of Okhotsk). It has an influence on the local climate: wet air, not so cold, and weather can change very quickly. It much colder outside of Magadan: up to - 50 C.

The Sea of Okhotsk (Russian: tr. Okhotskoye More) is a marginal sea of the western Pacific Ocean. It’s the first Russian settlement in the Far East. The Sea of Okhotsk covers 611,000 sq.mi. (1,583,000 km2). It is connected to the Sea of Japan on either side of Sakhalin: on the west through the Sakhalin Gulf and the Gulf of Tartary; on the south, through the La Pérouse Strait. With the exception of Hokkaidō, one of the Japanese home islands, the sea is surrounded on all sides by territory administered by the Russian Federation.

The Road of Bones

So that was basic idea at the beginning of shooting process. Flight from Moscow to this place (Magadan) took about 8 hours. There is no railway connection. Also possible to drive here by car, but it very long way and road could be really dangerous sometimes.

 

Russian Far East

I was making documentary as a co-director together with two German filmmakers from Cologne’s International Film School (ifs) in Russian Far East during November 2014.

Here a treatment that was written by Christian Zipfel (director of this film) before we go to Magadan and start shooting process:

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.