Non-Fiction Poems: Freeing Docs
- Time
- Feb 27th 2020
- Location
- HAU2
- Guests
- Victor Kossakovsky moderated by Djamila Grandits
- Topics
Writer, director, DoP and editor in turn, Victor Kossakovsky’s credit listings betray the particular brand of artistic absolutism with which he creates. Stages of the filmmaking process stitch together to ensure that what is shown bears the imprint of a singular entity, even when images move from warm waters to ice or from pigs to hens. Driven by a liberating perception of documentary as the nucleus of all cinema (think of the train pulling into the station or the workers leaving a factory), Kossakovsky discusses his approach to researching, financing and filming Aquarela (2019) and Gunda (Encounters 2020) and the highly subjective quality that inhabits his non-fiction poems.
Victor Kossakovsky
Victor Kossakovsky began his career at the Leningrad Documentary Film Studio in 1978 as an assistant cameraman, assistant director and editor. In 1988, he graduated from the Higher Courses for Film Writers and Directors Institute in Moscow. He has taken on the roles of writer, director, editor and cinematographer in many of his films. His international breakthrough, THE BELOVS, won the Joris Ivens Award and the Audience Award at IDFA in Amsterdam. Since then, his work has continued to win numerous awards. His most recent film, AQUARELA, premiered at Venice in 2018
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Djamila Grandits
Djamila Grandits is a Vienna-based curator and film programmer. Part of CineCollective and D—Arts. Currently working on the pre-selection committee of Berlinale Panorama. Former member of the non-fiction commission of Zürcher Filmstiftung. Previously programmed with Diagonale, DOK Leipzig, Kasseler Dokfest, sixpackfilm, frameout and tricky women - tricky realities. Her practice is grounded in care and curiosity for moving image practices, collective and speculative curatorial movements.
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