Boris Kazakov

History

Russian artist and director, born on November 13, 1964 in Leningrad. After graduating from school, he graduated from the Plant-VTUZ. In 1988-1990 he began painting and exhibiting with the group "Old Town". Since 1990, he has worked with the artist Inal Savchenkov as part of the "Engineers of Arts" school. In 1996, Boris Kazakov made his first author's film "Nestlings of the Sea" using the traditional technique for russian parallel cinema of drawing over the image on film, which participated in festivals in Tampere, Stuttgart and was awarded a jury diploma in Oberhausen-98. In 1999, with his second film "Stakes", the director was invited to the competition program on Berlin Film Festival, to festivals in Leipzig, Jerusalem and was awarded the Grand Prix of the Kinoshock Festival. In 2000, the films "Nestlings of the Sea" and "Stakes" were shown in the program of the Rotterdam Film Festival, after which they were acquired by the Cinema Museum in Amsterdam. Boris Kazakov experiments a lot in camera-less animation, found a way to shoot movies with a camera, and also works in traditional animation. In addition to the above-mentioned pictures, he made the films "Eye" (2001), "Dog" (2001), "Petrogratz" (2003), "News" (2003), "Rock Garden" (2004), "Alphabet" (2004) and video clips for musical groups "Two Planes", "New Composers", "PEPSI". Filmography: 1992 - The country meets heroes 1997 - Nestlings of the Sea 1998 - Stakes 2000 - Clouds 2001 - Sirens of Titan 2001 - Dog 2002 - Eye 2003 - Petrogratz 2004 - Rock Garden 2004- Alphabet

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Boris Kazakov

Movies

Great Extremes Kulakov
Great Extremes Kulakov
Production Design
Mikhail Kulakov, the protagonist of the film, is a prominent figure of the Russian unofficial art scene of the 50s-60s. He was an abstractionist, a tachiste, a participant in the first underground expositions. He lived and worked at great extremes, advocating the idea of freedom as the supreme value.
Dragonflies
Dragonflies
Director
Stakes
Stakes
Director
A wild ironization and deconstruction of the old Soviet pathos of the victory of technical progress – like the accelerated pulse just before a heart attack. The film is made in the technique of applying an image on a 35mm film. As a source material used some footage from the film by Evgeny Yufit "Silver Heads". In 1999, the film "Cola" took part in the Berlinale. Plot: nature cannot stop science, which creates a hybrid of man and tree.
Nestlings of the Sea
Nestlings of the Sea
Director
The artist uses old archive films in a new way by drawing and scratching on 35mm film. The original material is documentary movies produced by amateur Soviet studios in the 1970s.