The Blue Soup
The Blue Soup Group was founded by Alexei Dobrov, Daneel Lebedev and Valery Patkonen in 1996. From 1998 it is run by: Daneel Lebedev (born in 1974, graduated from the Moscow Architectural Institute) and Alexei Dobrov (born in 1975, graduated from the Moscow Architectural Institute).
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS AND FESTIVALS
2001 Paralleles Kino (Graaz, Austria)
Art Moscow 2001. (Central House of Artists, Moscow)
2000 Post-Soviet Montages (Montreal, Canada)
Extra Short Film Festival. (Novosibirsk, Russia)
Instrumenta 2000 - International Moscow Forum of Artistic Initiatives (Moscow, Russia)
Video Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
1999-2000 Stuttgarter Filmwinter, (Stuttgart, Germany)
1997, 1998, 1999 Cine-Phantom Festival. (Moscow, Russia)
1998 European Media Art Fest – EMAF'98 (Osnabruck, Germany)
1997 New Film Fest'97 (Split, Croatia)
FILMOGRAPHY
"Panorama". 2002. 1'30". Betacam.
"Three Wishes". 2001. 1'20". Betacam.
"Five Stars". 2000. 1'20". Betacam.
"Stop". 2000. 1'00". Betacam.
"Air". 1999. 1'30". Betacam.
"In Time of Trouble". 1999. 3'00". Betacam.
"Thunder". 1999. 1'00". Betacam.
"Report". 1999. 3'00". Betacam.
"Approximate Rockets' Sizes". 1998. 1'25. Betacam.
"The Cabin". 1998. 2'35" Betacam.
"Enlightenment". 1998. 0'30". Betacam.
"Hatch". 1998. 1'26". Betacam.
"The End". 1998. 0'45". Betacam.
"For Ever in the Wake of the Sun". 1998.4'30". Betacam.
"Mute". 1998. 3'30". Betacam.
"Ruisonderdrukking". 1997. 1'20". Betacam.
"Camuflage". 1997. 4'50". Betacam.
"Coitus Suite". 1996. 5'45" VHS.
"Dispatcher". 1996. 16'00". VHS.
"Seven High Buildings". 1996. 26'00". VHS.
AWARDS
Team-Work Award (13th Stuttgarter Filmwinter (2000) for video project "For Ever in the Wake of the Sun").
3rd Jury's Award (VideoLisboa 2000 for video project "Air").