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Friday, November 8, 2019 - 21:00
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Written by:
Vladlena Sandu, Alina Kotova
Cinematography:
Anna Rozhetskaya
Editing:
Vladlena Sandu, Alina Kotova
Sound:
Anton Kuryshev
Producer:
Alexander Starikov
Production:
Elixir, Cosmosfilm
Tip film:
In eight tableaux, we see stages and situations from the working life of a 1993-born Russian woman. Her jobs and tasks span from doing rounds to check who is present at work to being a brothel manager. In each workspace and situation, she and the workmates around her stare at the camera while a bleak commentary provides us with details regarding the context, delivering them as a string of keywords. “Graduated - now a journalist. Suicidal depression, paranoid delirium.” A livid portrait of a young woman who constantly on the verge of unemployment, EIGHT IMAGES… evokes the country’s 780 thousand university graduates who end up accepting jobs for which they are overqualified. (Ioana Florescu, BIEFF 2019)
Director:
ALINA KOTOVA (1993, Russia) moved to Vancouver and San Diego before returning to Russia. She studied at the Rodchenko art school, and then at the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts (GITIS) from 2012 to 2016. She has also worked as a theatre critic. EIGHT IMAGES … is her first short film.
VLADLENA SANDU, born in Crimea, studied at Rodchenko Art School in Moscow and at the directing faculty of the Russian State University of Cinematography (VGIK). EIGHT IMAGES FROM THE LIFE OF NASTYA SOKOLOVA (2017) is her first co-direction with Alina Kotova. Her filmography includes the short films DIYAN (2012, doc), THE ORLOVS (2014, doc), KIRA (2015), HOLY GOD (2016, doc).
Festivals, awards:
Best Documentary Short - Ji.hlava 2018 / Best Short Debut - Spirit of Fire International Debut Film Festival, Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia, 2017 / International Film Festival Rotterdam 2018 / IndieLisboa 2018 / VIS Vienna Shorts 2018/ Apricot Tree International Documentary FF, Armenia 2018/ Sehnsüchte International Student’s FF, Germany 2018
Curatorial comment::
“A strong reflection on current socio-economic issues that derive from failed societies, this film falls on the border of contemporary art and cinema, giving us eight contrasting tableaux to tell the story of a generation.” (Jury motivation, Award for Best Short Documentary Ji.hlava 2018)
“A strong reflection on current socio-economic issues that derive from failed societies, this film falls on the border of contemporary art and cinema, giving us eight contrasting tableaux to tell the story of a generation.” (Jury motivation, Award for Best Short Documentary Ji.hlava 2018)