New short films by 4 award-winning Russian filmmakers
who were selected for their cinematic accomplishments in a competitive nomination process.
a free public screening on Wednesday, September 9th, 5-7:50pm in HUMN 150
The Last Day of I.S. Bulkin (2009, 13 minutes, dir. Aleksey Andrianov) What happens when death comes knocking…
Official Selection at various Russian film festivals.
Field, Clowns, Apple… (2008, 13 minutes, dir. Shota Gamisoniya) Dreamscape and reality meet in this surrealist and sweeping single shot film. Official selection, Rotterdam, Trieste, and Bolzano Film Festivals. Winner of the Film Critic’s Guild Prize at the Festival of Debut Film at the Moscow Museum of Cinema.
Resurrection (2008, 29 minutes, Petr Zebelin) A Tarantino-esque look at Saint Petersburg’s dark underbelly.
Official selection, 2008 Open Cinema International Film Festival (Saint Petersburg).
Sanatorium (2008, 19 minutes, dir. Natalya Govorina) It happens to all of us sooner or later… a film based on the works of Russian literary figures Venedikt Erofeev and Sasha Sokolov. Named Best Narrative Film at 2008 Moscow Short Film Festival.
Aleksei Andriyanov is a filmmaker from Moscow. Born in 1976, he holds a degree in Screenwriting from the Gerasimov Institute (VGIK), and a degree in Film Directing from Moscow’s Higher Courses of Screenwriting and Directing. His cinematography credits include Katya Grokhovskaya and Peter Stepin’s feature length film The Man of No Return (Chelovek bezvozvratnyy, 2006), and numerous promotional advertisements for major clients from Coca Cola to Panasonic. He has directed three short films, including The Last Day of I.S. Bulkin (2009) and Fun Time, which was included in the 2007 Filminute Festival (London).
Shota Gamisoniya is an actor and filmmaker living in Moscow. He was born in 1981 in Sukhumi, a city on the coast of the Black Sea in a politically volatile region of Georgia. He has lived in Moscow since 1993. His first academic pursuit was acting: he graduated from the Vakhtangov Theatre Institute in 2003, and went on to work for two years with Yuri Lubimov’s Taganka Theater. In 2007 he began a Master’s degree in Filmmaking, graduating in 2008 with his short film Field, Clowns, Apple (2008) as a final project. The film received the Film Critic’s Guild Award at the Moscow Festival of Debut Films, and was an official selection at numerous European festivals including Rotterdam, Trieste, and Bolzano. He is currently at work on his next film, with production beginning in August of 2009.
Natalya Govorina, a filmmaker, was born in 1982 in the city of Tomsk in Siberia. As a college student, she studied Philosophy at Tomsk State University and worked for the Russian television program “Rush Hour.” She went on to study at the Internews School of Film and Television in Moscow, and in 2009 she graduated from the Gerasimov Institute (VGIK), Russia’s top film school, with a degree in Film Directing. Her student films, including The Investigative Experiment (Sledstvennyy Eksperiment, 2006), Jazz (2007), and Sanatorium (Zdravnitsa, 2008) have been screened and received awards at Russian and international film festivals.
Pyotr Zabelin is an actor and filmmaker. He was born in 1978 in Leningrad. He studied Acting for Theater and Film at the Saint Petersburg Academy of Theater Arts and received a degree in Film Directing from the Saint Petersburg University of Culture and the Arts. He also studied Theory and Practice of Media Arts at the Pro Arte Institute of Contemporary Arts. He is the founder and organizer of an independent movement, The Society of Creative Adventurer Radicals (S.T.A.R.). He has worked as an actor in various Saint Petersburg theaters and his films have been screened and won awards at Russian and international film festivals. Currently he is working on a full length independent film.
