Viktor Kosakovsky: a leading documentary filmmaker of Russia

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In recent years in the elite world of documentary film has managed to enter the units of domestic producers. Among the few Russian documentary filmmaker Viktor Kosakovsky, born in Leningrad in 1961.

Victor Kosakovsky

Under the guidance

Currently, the holder of prestigious awards “Triumph” and “Nika” has come to the cinema, when all the exciting perestroika subjects were repeatedly touched and irrevocably exhausted. After graduating from the Leningrad Institute of film and working on the documentary film Studio, Viktor accidentally falls under the tutelage of renowned Alexander Sokurov. Under his guidance the future master of documentary studies at the Higher courses of scriptwriters and film Directors, and after debuting with the project “following”, dedicated to the last period of the life of the philosopher A. Losev. Kinoobschestvennost expect from the newcomer to continue “existential documentary" the tutor of Alexander Sokurov, however, Viktor Kosakovsky did not blindly copy the style of his teacher. The similarity with the parables is observed only Sokurov in his debut tape. Subsequent work of the Director filmed in the genre, named by critics as “philosophical hit”.

Viktor Kosakovsky filmography

Hint mystery

Viktor Kosakovsky, filmography spanning ten works (“following”, “days”, “clean”, “Environment 19.07.61”, “Pavel and Lyalya”, “I love you”, “Hush!”, “Russia from my window”, “sacred”, “long live the antipodes!”), a talented reissiue, reveals the circumstances underlying the narrative for each tape. Using technology similar to "candid camera", the Director penetrates into the most sacred sphere of human existence and life. Revealing the nature of each character, shows the viewer a voluntary mental Striptease, eschewing provocation as artistic technique. The author is extremely sensitive and moderately enticing. The impression that Viktor Kosakovsky consciously walks the razor's edge, deftly balancing on the edges of the permissible.

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directed by documentary filmmaker Viktor Kosakovsky

Not a game movie

The Director's ubiquitous critics often reproach that his projects are shot like feature films. In this case all it is known that the basic form and structural frames of each tape of the documentary. His characters behave naturally in front of the camera and say what you think is right. Another thing is the installation process. According to the Director, his documentary born during installation, it tries to lay down the footage like the narration in the fiction film. Every time Viktor Kosakovsky, adding a new story, trying to Express what's in doubt. When mounting the film, the Director adds all the frames so that they become links in a chain, one piece of the story, which was perceived as looking dramatic a single work with a beginning, middle and end of the climax. The author deliberately creates the illusion that everything is well initially, and filmed according to the script. This is a distinguishing feature of its creative handwriting. He is his own cameraman and editor.

Viktor Kosakovsky biography

Special place

According to the Director, the film “clean”, which gathered a lot of awards at the documentary film festival in Amsterdam, holds a special place in his filmography. Viktor Kosakovsky called a picture story of his family, in which the characters – his family. Director of the filming process was an opportunity to Express all that was intended. Perhaps most might consider such a bold act unethical, but the author at times difficult to tell us all something lurking about outside the individual, than about himself and his family. In this project, the Director boldly ordered the unseen, perfectly illustrating and demonstrating his life. In this case the master still had not crossed the elusive line almost sacred. Thus, Viktor Kosakovsky his biography revealed not fully confiding in the framework of what is permitted.

Visual and conceptual feast

The Last masterpiece of the master is a picture of the “long live the antipodes!”, released in 2011. The film opened the Venice international film festival, and then continued his triumphant March through different countries of Europe, including Holland, France, Germany, Switzerland. The film has not gone unnoticed in the United States. Heroes of steel tape "earthlings" that live on different sides of the center of the planet. As a result of separate frames, like a perfected haiku, in the process of installation has developed in amazing rhyming epic.

The international film critics constantly praised the breathtaking documentary footage, resulting in a true visual feast. The viewer who looked at the picture, did not hide the delight from seeing the spectacle. It is not surprising that in 2016 he received an invitation to join the ranks of the American Academy of motion picture arts. And the film ‘Opposites" received on the international and Russian film festivals around hundreds of various prestigious nominations and awards.


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