Eugene Kotlyarenko

Eugene Kotlyarenko

Birth : , Odessa - Ukraine

History

Eugene Kotlyarenko is a director and writer, known for Spree (2020), Wobble Palace (2018) and 0s & 1s (2011).

Profile

Eugene Kotlyarenko

Movies

How to Blow Up a Pipeline
Executive Producer
A crew of young environmental activists execute a daring mission to sabotage an oil pipeline.
Harka
Producer
Ali is a young Tunisian who dreams of a better life and ekes out a lonely existence selling contraband oil on the black market. When his father dies, he is forced to care for his two younger sisters who have been left to their own devices in a house from which they will soon be evicted. As he wrestles with the sudden weight of responsibility and the injustices he faces, anger and indignation stir within Ali – that of a generation still fighting to be heard more than a decade after the revolution…
Wild Card
The Interviewer
Two strangers are brought together by a video dating service.
The Scary of Sixty-First
Thanks
Two roommates’ lives are upended after finding out that their new Manhattan apartment harbors a dark secret.
El Planeta
Thanks
Amidst the devastation of post-crisis Spain, mother and daughter bluff and grift to keep up the lifestyle they think they deserve, bonding over common tragedy and an impending eviction.
We Are
Writer
When Doug - a hapless employee at a VR startup - is forced to work the night shift, he becomes fast friends with a squatting vagrant named Stick. Increasingly belittled by his domineering wife, Vera, and the company's reckless owner, Vikas, Doug falls under Stick's charming spell over the course of several delirious nights. As the two of them bond over the nature of reality, virtual and otherwise, Stick begins empowering Doug to take back control of his life...but to what end?
We Are
Director
When Doug - a hapless employee at a VR startup - is forced to work the night shift, he becomes fast friends with a squatting vagrant named Stick. Increasingly belittled by his domineering wife, Vera, and the company's reckless owner, Vikas, Doug falls under Stick's charming spell over the course of several delirious nights. As the two of them bond over the nature of reality, virtual and otherwise, Stick begins empowering Doug to take back control of his life...but to what end?
Spree
Producer
Desperate for an online following, a rideshare driver has figured out a deadly plan to go viral and he will stop at nothing to get his five minutes of fame.
Spree
Writer
Desperate for an online following, a rideshare driver has figured out a deadly plan to go viral and he will stop at nothing to get his five minutes of fame.
Spree
Director
Desperate for an online following, a rideshare driver has figured out a deadly plan to go viral and he will stop at nothing to get his five minutes of fame.
Wobble Palace
Story
A couple on the verge of a nervous break-up decide to split their home over the weekend and test the waters of independence.
Wobble Palace
Director
A couple on the verge of a nervous break-up decide to split their home over the weekend and test the waters of independence.
Wobble Palace
Eugene
A couple on the verge of a nervous break-up decide to split their home over the weekend and test the waters of independence.
A Wonderful Cloud
Eugene
When Eugene’s ex-GF Katelyn lands in LA to disband their business, the two of them must negotiate between past tensions and future possibilities, in this raw bittersweet rom-com that walks the line between fiction and reality.
A Wonderful Cloud
Screenplay
When Eugene’s ex-GF Katelyn lands in LA to disband their business, the two of them must negotiate between past tensions and future possibilities, in this raw bittersweet rom-com that walks the line between fiction and reality.
A Wonderful Cloud
Director
When Eugene’s ex-GF Katelyn lands in LA to disband their business, the two of them must negotiate between past tensions and future possibilities, in this raw bittersweet rom-com that walks the line between fiction and reality.
Lowlands
Eugene
A collection of disjointed vignettes follows a self-important writer on a hike, a lost driver re-routed away from the hospital, a philosopher in search of the best Chinese food, a couch-surfer on a midnight joyride, a spirited conspiracy theorist, and other young urban wanderers in the sprawling metropolis of Los Angeles.
Crimea
Editor
iPhone video diary of the first half of Kotlyarenko's 24th year, very much in the style of Jonas Mekas' "Walden".
Crimea
Director of Photography
iPhone video diary of the first half of Kotlyarenko's 24th year, very much in the style of Jonas Mekas' "Walden".
Crimea
Director
iPhone video diary of the first half of Kotlyarenko's 24th year, very much in the style of Jonas Mekas' "Walden".
Feast of Burden
Screenplay
A group of old friends gather for a dinner party full of dark secrets, mysterious forces and deadly consequences.
Feast of Burden
Director
A group of old friends gather for a dinner party full of dark secrets, mysterious forces and deadly consequences.
Feast of Burden
A group of old friends gather for a dinner party full of dark secrets, mysterious forces and deadly consequences.
No Word for
Himself
"A short lil' documentary I made about my family in late 2006, when I was ~20yo" - Eugene Kotlyarenko
No Word for
Director
"A short lil' documentary I made about my family in late 2006, when I was ~20yo" - Eugene Kotlyarenko
0s & 1s
Screenplay
Los Angeles, 2006. Life is Easy 2.0 for James Pongo. He has a cushy job, a busy social life and an alluring love interest all through the click of a mouse. But when he wakes up after a night of reckless partying to discover that his computer is missing, James' hyper-connected reality takes a nosedive. This sends him on a picaresque journey of interrogations and humiliations with the suburban losers he left behind. Told entirely through the websites, programs, games and social networks that make up our daily lives, 0s & 1s uses James Pongo's nihilistic adventure to question our growing dependency on these alternate digital realities.
0s & 1s
Director
Los Angeles, 2006. Life is Easy 2.0 for James Pongo. He has a cushy job, a busy social life and an alluring love interest all through the click of a mouse. But when he wakes up after a night of reckless partying to discover that his computer is missing, James' hyper-connected reality takes a nosedive. This sends him on a picaresque journey of interrogations and humiliations with the suburban losers he left behind. Told entirely through the websites, programs, games and social networks that make up our daily lives, 0s & 1s uses James Pongo's nihilistic adventure to question our growing dependency on these alternate digital realities.
SkyDiver (Instructional Video #4: Preparation for Mission)
Producer
A young man, reeling from a long-distance romance gone awry, spirals increasingly deeper into depression and desperation as he video chats with his close friends and gets involved with a New Age, Right-wing, domestic terrorist cell.
SkyDiver (Instructional Video #4: Preparation for Mission)
Writer
A young man, reeling from a long-distance romance gone awry, spirals increasingly deeper into depression and desperation as he video chats with his close friends and gets involved with a New Age, Right-wing, domestic terrorist cell.
SkyDiver (Instructional Video #4: Preparation for Mission)
A young man, reeling from a long-distance romance gone awry, spirals increasingly deeper into depression and desperation as he video chats with his close friends and gets involved with a New Age, Right-wing, domestic terrorist cell.
SkyDiver (Instructional Video #4: Preparation for Mission)
Director
A young man, reeling from a long-distance romance gone awry, spirals increasingly deeper into depression and desperation as he video chats with his close friends and gets involved with a New Age, Right-wing, domestic terrorist cell.
The Straight Ball
Director
Funny, twitchy portrait of a date derailed.