HANNOVER FILM FESTIVAL
2001

Arsinkey Anzhela, Fenchenko Anna, Stolpovskaya Olga, Saakian Maria

ANNOTATIONS TO THE FILMS FROM THE PROGRAM

"DREAMS"
10 min., 35 mm, b&w/color, 1999.
Directed by Anna Fenchenko.
All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography. V.I. Khotinenko Studio.
Lyrical documentary based on Ludwig Ashkenazy’s poetry. The heroines of the film are women of various ages. While the image of their inner world has been coded in a black & white slide show /film in film/, there occurs a sort of "animation" of reality, close to phantasm, corresponding to the nature of cinematography as a "factory of dreams". Shown in Vedo Corto (Italy, 1999), Art Film Festival (Slovakya, 2000).

"ASME TODI"
4 min., VHS, color, 2000.
Directed by Angela Arsinkey.
"Asme todi" means "to know oneself" in the Udmurt language.
The spontaneous performance by artist’s relatives and countrymen neighbors, executed according to the script known only to them Udmurts, the far north minority, happened to be recorded by chance. The author just put this vivid material into the context of art. As a result, we are presented with an amazing picture which came out of characteristic Udmurt behavior: to hide from the strangers’ eyes and, thus feeling safe, to give the way out for the energy of their pagan roots.

"BLUE GARDEN"
5 min., 35 mm, color, 2000.
Directed by Roman Anisimov and Alexander Kuznetsov.
All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography. V. Kobrin Studio.
Somewhere not so far off there is an unusual garden – a kind one, magic and accessible. Within half a century a great many various things have gathered behind its walls. Branches fell off the trees, flowers grown throughout the grounds, things destroyed by people’s hands – all this gave their sprouts, mingling with one another, having absorbed both nature and man. But this is not chaos. It is an amazing portrait of a garden’s owner entered into nature, itself. It is a garden-cosmos, love and trepidation, peace and order. This is a garden the color of the sky, the color of the eyes.

"THE HEAVEN"
23 min., Beta SP, color, 1999.
Directed by Olga Stolpovskaya.

The year of 1999. They are to get an answer to the key question of Being.
At the turn of the epochs young artists and common people from Russia and Europe answer only one question asked by the author of the film: What does Heaven mean? This film can be interpreted as a sort of a documentary - provocation with respect to actors and viewers. The challenge of this provocative action is to study a spiritual paradigm by means of a documentary as a genre.

"EVE"
5 min., 16 mm, b&w/color, 2001.
Directed by Masha Saakyan.
All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography, V. Kobrin Studio.
"Eve" means "life" in ancient Hebrew.
In this film, the very birth of life is considered as a cultural phenomenon inculcated in a general course of the development of civilization. With the help of computer graphics and animation one can trace the development of this theme in art: painting, sculpture, photo.

"I AM THROWING THE GROUND"
9 min., HI-8, color, 1999.
Directed by Victor Alimpiev and Sergei Vishnevsky.
Similar views on the actual and non-actual in contemporary art united Sergei Vishnevsky and Victor Alimpiev in realization of their joint, multi-stage video art project with the film "I am Throwing the Ground" as one of its parts. This project initiated development of a new genre in their work, where the mental lyrical space and indication of its borders are introduced as an object of creation.

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Anna Fenchenko "DREAMS"
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Olga Stolpovskaya "HEAVENS"
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