Alexandra Kulak
出生 : 1990-01-29, Vitebsk, Belarus
略歴
Alexandra Kulak (Belarus: Аляксандра Кулак; born 29 January, 19990; Vitebsk, Belarus) is a Belarus documentary filmmaker, director of photography, editor and media/fashion artist.
In 2015, she graduated from Saint Petersburg University Culture and Arts’ program for photographer‐filmmakers. Since 2014 she has also been studying at the department of cinematography of the Moscow Film School. Her work as director and cinematographer include the short films CHRISTMAS (co‐directed with Ruslan Fedotow, 2014) and OK GOOD (documentary musical, 2015). Her award-winning documentary SALAMANCA (co‐dir. Ruslan Fedotow, 2015) premiered in IDFA and was an official selection in international festivals throughout the world. Her film QUICKSILVER CHRONICLES (2019) had its world premiere at Visions du Réel - Nyon.
Editor
"A Hawk as Big as a Horse" follows the daily life of Lydia, a bi-gender ornithologist who lives in Shcherbinka, a remote suburb of Moscow. As Lydia embarks on remaking David Lynch’s Twin Peaks, she decides to create Lara, a life-size silicon doll of her favorite actress.
Director of Photography
"A Hawk as Big as a Horse" follows the daily life of Lydia, a bi-gender ornithologist who lives in Shcherbinka, a remote suburb of Moscow. As Lydia embarks on remaking David Lynch’s Twin Peaks, she decides to create Lara, a life-size silicon doll of her favorite actress.
Writer
"A Hawk as Big as a Horse" follows the daily life of Lydia, a bi-gender ornithologist who lives in Shcherbinka, a remote suburb of Moscow. As Lydia embarks on remaking David Lynch’s Twin Peaks, she decides to create Lara, a life-size silicon doll of her favorite actress.
Director
"A Hawk as Big as a Horse" follows the daily life of Lydia, a bi-gender ornithologist who lives in Shcherbinka, a remote suburb of Moscow. As Lydia embarks on remaking David Lynch’s Twin Peaks, she decides to create Lara, a life-size silicon doll of her favorite actress.
Director of Photography
It’s 2020 and Minsk, the capital city of Belarus, is overflowing with anti-government protests. A dreamy figure – Mara – takes us on a journey alongside the protesting crowds. Mara’s symbolic presence is a stark contrast to the harsh reality of the street. There is a determination to Mara, but also a fragility – as if her persona reflects the collective mental state of the protesters witnessing their dream for freedom turn into a nightmare.
Editor
It’s 2020 and Minsk, the capital city of Belarus, is overflowing with anti-government protests. A dreamy figure – Mara – takes us on a journey alongside the protesting crowds. Mara’s symbolic presence is a stark contrast to the harsh reality of the street. There is a determination to Mara, but also a fragility – as if her persona reflects the collective mental state of the protesters witnessing their dream for freedom turn into a nightmare.
Director
It’s 2020 and Minsk, the capital city of Belarus, is overflowing with anti-government protests. A dreamy figure – Mara – takes us on a journey alongside the protesting crowds. Mara’s symbolic presence is a stark contrast to the harsh reality of the street. There is a determination to Mara, but also a fragility – as if her persona reflects the collective mental state of the protesters witnessing their dream for freedom turn into a nightmare.
Director
The vast territories beside the Pinega river in northwest Russia are covered by woods and inhabited by more wild animals than people, besides a few villages who live mostly from the forests, fishing, and gardening. Society here can only be described as a matriarchy, where beliefs, spells, and traditional rituals are passed down the female line. Musical contributions from village residents serve as a leitmotif for the film: unsteady renditions of old songs that reveal performances belonging to a distant past. The population of these communities has aged considerably — but the place itself is timeless.
Camera Operator
The plot of the film is based on the large-scale reconstruction of the historical building of the HPP-2 power plant on Bolotnaya Embankment under the direction of architect Renzo Piano and the transformation of the power plant into a cultural institution and a cultural house of the V-A-C foundation, founded by Leonid Mikhelson. For five years, the process of fixing this reincarnation was carried out. The basis of the shooting method was the desire to show big events through the prism of the interaction of art and life of the construction site and the V-A-C foundation, through small details, through the people who are doing it all.
Director of Photography
Dmitry is a Russian emigrant living in London with his wife and son. He is one of the most successful venture capitalists in the world. He has everything, but at 46 years and 7 months he realizes that one day he will die. Dmitry creates a fund investing in life-extension technologies.
Director
About young workers and why they joined the protests - the film by Sasha Kulak, Yulia Vishnevetskaya and Andrei Kiselev "Strike. Minsk Tractor Plant".
Screenplay
The water flows on the surface of the Earth and in the underworld, this substance connects both sides of the river as margins of life. The narration is holding out the silhouette from the sketch of an artist to the symbolism of the ancient world reading small gestures. This film accommodates artist’s works by giving them a role of an oracle.
Director of Photography
The water flows on the surface of the Earth and in the underworld, this substance connects both sides of the river as margins of life. The narration is holding out the silhouette from the sketch of an artist to the symbolism of the ancient world reading small gestures. This film accommodates artist’s works by giving them a role of an oracle.
Director
The water flows on the surface of the Earth and in the underworld, this substance connects both sides of the river as margins of life. The narration is holding out the silhouette from the sketch of an artist to the symbolism of the ancient world reading small gestures. This film accommodates artist’s works by giving them a role of an oracle.
Director of Photography
The cycle of life marked by trauma: intensive trip into the memories of fundamental traumatic experiences of one's childhood which determine the future persona
Editor
The picture is about the inexplicable property of a person to fill with energy and life even the most frightening and abandoned places. This is a portrait of the abandoned city of New Idrija and the last years of the lives of those who spent their youth in believing in an alternative version of the “American Dream”.
Director of Photography
The picture is about the inexplicable property of a person to fill with energy and life even the most frightening and abandoned places. This is a portrait of the abandoned city of New Idrija and the last years of the lives of those who spent their youth in believing in an alternative version of the “American Dream”.
Director
The picture is about the inexplicable property of a person to fill with energy and life even the most frightening and abandoned places. This is a portrait of the abandoned city of New Idrija and the last years of the lives of those who spent their youth in believing in an alternative version of the “American Dream”.
Director
On the eve of the World Cup, three teams of young directors embark on a journey through the largest country in the world to find out what really makes up the soul and meaning of real Russian football. In a country where football exists more in the headlines of scandalous tabloids and newly built, shiny stadiums-palaces, in parallel, the invisible life of raw and non-program football, yard boxes and football fields arranged in the most unexpected places is rapidly developing. The blood and energy of this life are young people driven by a pure love of the game, not looking for awards and titles. The stories of 3 heroes who live at a distance of tens of thousands of kilometers from each other, but are passionate about the same thing, are told in a documentary almanac, the shooting of which took place throughout Russia.
Executive Producer
A girl — or a woman — in a bright red scarf, with a soft toy mouse in her arms. To look at her, you wouldn’t guess that she’s 50 and has been homeless for three years. Her incredible passion to live prevents her from freezing on the cold streets of Moscow.
Director of Photography
For generations, the Salamanca community of Mennonites has been living in the same modest and rigidly organized way. Modern-day scenes are accompanied by a voice-over narrating a man’s recollections of his youth. “As soon as I close my eyes,” he explains, “I go back to the past, to the moment when I made the choice that shaped my entire life.” Speaking in the Plautdietsch language, he talks calmly of the strong curiosity he felt as a young boy about the world beyond Salamanca and the Mennonite faith – a curiosity for which he paid dearly.
Editor
For generations, the Salamanca community of Mennonites has been living in the same modest and rigidly organized way. Modern-day scenes are accompanied by a voice-over narrating a man’s recollections of his youth. “As soon as I close my eyes,” he explains, “I go back to the past, to the moment when I made the choice that shaped my entire life.” Speaking in the Plautdietsch language, he talks calmly of the strong curiosity he felt as a young boy about the world beyond Salamanca and the Mennonite faith – a curiosity for which he paid dearly.
Director
For generations, the Salamanca community of Mennonites has been living in the same modest and rigidly organized way. Modern-day scenes are accompanied by a voice-over narrating a man’s recollections of his youth. “As soon as I close my eyes,” he explains, “I go back to the past, to the moment when I made the choice that shaped my entire life.” Speaking in the Plautdietsch language, he talks calmly of the strong curiosity he felt as a young boy about the world beyond Salamanca and the Mennonite faith – a curiosity for which he paid dearly.
Director of Photography
Pretty innocent game of two boys caused the man's death. Now they have to decide what to do: hide it or tell the truth...
Screenplay
A documentary musical about life in the Russian outback somewhere near Vologda. It's a sound: music, a human voice, and silence.
Cinematography
A documentary musical about life in the Russian outback somewhere near Vologda. It's a sound: music, a human voice, and silence.
Director
A documentary musical about life in the Russian outback somewhere near Vologda. It's a sound: music, a human voice, and silence.
Director of Photography
This is the story of one day in the life of a Georgian family. A fisherman's family celebrates Christmas day.
Editor
This is the story of one day in the life of a Georgian family. A fisherman's family celebrates Christmas day.
Director
This is the story of one day in the life of a Georgian family. A fisherman's family celebrates Christmas day.
Screenplay
Documentary film by Ruslan Fedotov
