Florian Yuriev

Florian Yuriev

Birth : 1929-08-11,

Death : 2022-09-11

History

Florian Yuriev is a Ukrainian teacher, artist, architect, composer, art critic, scientist, colorist, master artist of violin musical instruments, candidate of art history, poet, honored worker of culture of Ukraine, public figure. Known as the architect and creator of the "Flying Saucer" (designed by Yuriev in 1978) - one of the architectural sights of Kyiv, which later they wanted to illegally reconstruct and rebuild, which is the subject of 2 documentaries by Oleksiy Radynski - "Facade Colour: Blue" (2019; short) and "Infinity According to Florian" (2022; full-length). He died in Kyiv, in 2022. The material of the abstract film about nature shot by him was edited into a short film called "Film Dedicated to Water and Trees" and shown as part of the world premiere at the Rotterdam Film Festival in 2023 (posthumously).

Profile

Florian Yuriev

Movies

Film Dedicated to Water and Trees
Film Dedicated to Water and Trees
Director of Photography
An unfinished abstract film by Florian Yuriev that the author worked on in the 1970s and was thought to be lost. The materials were found, restored and edited after Yuriev's death by director Oleksiy Radynski, preserving the original idea and visual images of Yuriev.
Film Dedicated to Water and Trees
Film Dedicated to Water and Trees
Writer
An unfinished abstract film by Florian Yuriev that the author worked on in the 1970s and was thought to be lost. The materials were found, restored and edited after Yuriev's death by director Oleksiy Radynski, preserving the original idea and visual images of Yuriev.
Film Dedicated to Water and Trees
Film Dedicated to Water and Trees
Director
An unfinished abstract film by Florian Yuriev that the author worked on in the 1970s and was thought to be lost. The materials were found, restored and edited after Yuriev's death by director Oleksiy Radynski, preserving the original idea and visual images of Yuriev.
Infinity According to Florian
Infinity According to Florian
Self
90-year-old architect Florian Yuriev is facing the destruction of his magnum opus: an avant-garde concert hall set to be repurposed as a shopping mall. Florian confronts the powerful real estate developer behind this investment project, and uses his visionary ideas to capture an unlikely victory. This is an architectural documentary with infusions of science fiction and horror film.
Facade Colour: Blue
Facade Colour: Blue
Self
Florian Yuriev is an architect, artist, violin maker, theoretician and poet. At the age of 90 he has to master another, completely new skill. In order to save his architectural project, Kyiv’s ‘Flying Saucer’, from turning into part of a shopping mall, Florian Yuriev launches a campaign against the arbitrary power of developers in the capital.