RUS 2008, Beta SP, colour, 26’, OmeU 

Director, Screenplay: Alexander Markov, Nick Teplov. DoP: Mikhail Kluev. Editor, Sound: Vadim Teterin. Music: Mono, Filanovsky, Petrov.

 

The guru of the Leningrad underground, Boris Koshelokhov, has come up with a plan to create one of the biggest works in the history of art: a 5,000-square-metre painting. The preparatory stages of his project are finished. Now it's a just a matter of finding a wall that's big enough. A rapidly-moving and formally innovative documentary.

 

Born 1973 in Leningrad, Russia. In 2000 he graduated from the Saint Petersburg University of Arts and Culture, where he studied film and video directing. In 2003 he translated Wim Wender's book "The Logic of Images” into Russian, published by B&K. 

 

Selected filmography:

2008: Pastoral, Two Highways, Russian Costa Rica

2007: Dutch’s Petersburg 

2003: Cities in the Cities

2002: Lullaby

2000: Freud’s Dreams Museum

F 2009, DVD, colour, 52’, OmeU


Director, Screenplay: François Lévy-Kuentz. Screenplay: Stephan Lévy-Kuentz. DoP: Olivier Raffet. Editor: Nicole Seres. Sound: Jacques Guillot. Music: Louis Sclavis.

 

Alexander Calder (1898-1976), one of the outstanding figures of modernism, revolutionised sculpture and freed it from its traditional constraints. Unfortunately, this contemporary and associate of Marcel Duchamp, Joan Miró and Piet Mondrian is too often seen only as the creator of his famous mobiles. Using Calder's original archives, this documentary film by François Lévy-Kuentz recounts the adventurous and multi-faceted life of this American artist, who conquered the international art world from his base in Paris and to whom the Centre Pompidou and the Whitney Museum in New York have both devoted retrospectives in 2009.

 

François Lévy-Kuentz was born in Paris and studied film at the Université Paris III. In addition to his own works, he has collaborated as a director on cultural television programs such as "Le cercle de minuit", "Rapptout", "Ramdam" and "Aux arts et cætera".

 

Selected filmography:

2006: Yves Klein, la révolution bleue

2003: Chagall: À la Russie, aux ânes et aux autres

2000: Pascin, l'impudique

1999: Le voyage de Delacroix

1998: L'atelier de Man Ray

1997: Les copistes du Louvre

1997: Annie Fratellini en scène

1995: Le regard rapproché

1993: L'atelier de Robert Combas / Philippe Djian

1989: Man Ray