Lidia Nikonova

약력

LA-based director of photography, Lidia works on narrative, documentary and commercial projects. Prior to working in film she was a photojournalist - her work has been published in newspapers around the world including The Daily Telegraph, The Age, Australian Financial Review, The Sydney Morning Herald and many others. She believes that thoughtfulness, authenticity and honesty are crucial to storytelling. Her work played at numerous festivals including New York Film Festival and Cannes Lions. She received several Best Cinematography awards for her film The Day That (2017). Lidia’s commercial work has been featured on Vimeo, i-D, Vogue and Nowness. She is a recipient of a prestigious American Film Institute Scholarship. Lidia holds a BA in Film Theory from The University of Sydney (AUS) and MFA in Cinematography from AFI (USA). Lidia is a member of ICFC, Cinematographers XX, Free The Work and WIM.

참여 작품

Russian Hackers: The Beginning
Cinematography
Russian Hackers: the beginning" is the author's documentary mini series of acclaimed Russian journalist Andrei Loshak. The film investigates this worldwide phenomenon of Russian hackers, it's inception in early 90s and it's growth in 2010s. The film goes through the lives of most prominent hackers of the time, following their paths of free crime, punishment and then awareness. It's a cats mice game of hackers and authorities both in Russia and the USA at the era when nobody thought internet crime existed.
당신이 자는 동안
Director of Photography
미제 사건을 다루는 소설가는 현실을 도피하기 위해 친구가 소유한 외딴 별장을 찾는다. 별장에 도착하고 만난 이상한 부부는 자신을 관리인으로 소개한다. 점차 긴장감이 쌓여가며 어두운 비밀이 밝혀진다.
Cosboi
Cinematography
A genderqueer teen experiments with their identity in a series of anonymous car rides -- accompanied by a Greek Chorus of TikToks.
Sakha Tyla: How to teach a machine to understand Sakha
Camera Operator
How do you save a language that has not been spoken for a whole generation? It’s essential to use the language in chat rooms, in creating movies, blogs, and rap, and to generally use it more often on the Internet. Alexey Ivanov is an enthusiast who understood this and approached Yandex with the idea of making an online translator from the Sakha language. The task that engineers solved many times with other languages turned out to be more difficult and interesting. In addition to technology, this project needed a protagonist.
Laying Out
Cinematography
This tersely lyrical meditation on sex and gender roles from Joanna Arnow features two fed-up mermaids lounging on a beach, drinks in hand, as they vent and commiserate over underacknowledged frustrations and unspoken desires.