Victor Kossakovsky Retrospective

Svyato

Victor Kossakovsky
Screening time  
26.02. / Tuesday, 16:00 - 18:00 Theatre 4  
Svyato opens with a quotation from an old legend: “But then everything changed on the day that man first saw his own reflection.''

In Russian, “svyato” means both “happy, clear and joyful” as well as “considered holy.” But Svyato is also the short form of Svyatoslav and the nickname of Victor Kossakovsky’s son. The director, whose films often feature mirror images, covered every mirror in his house starting on the day Svyato was born. Now his son is two years old, and he will see his own reflection for the first time in his life. Svyato and his mirror image are recorded by three HD cameras; according to the director, the result is a film about “self-cognition and loneliness.”

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Victor Kossakovsky

Victor Kossakovsky is a Russian documentary filmmaker, born 1961 in Leningrad. In 1978 he began working at the Leningrad Studio for Documentary Film as an assistant DoP, assistant director and editor. In 1988 he finished the College for Film Writers and Directors in Moscow. In many of his films, Kossakovsky plays the role of editor, cinematographer, writer and director. He started his own film production company in St. Petersburg, Kossakovsky Film Production, with the objective of creating a cinema of poetry and reality. ZagrebDox screened a retrospective of his films in 2013. Filmography: ¡Vivan las Antipodas! (2011), Svyato (2005), Hush! (2003), Russia from My Window (2003), I Loved You… (Three Romances) (2000), Pavel and Lyalya (1999), Wednesday 19.07.1961 (1997), Belovy (1994), The Other Day (1991).

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Svyato

Russia
2005, 40', video

Directed by:
Victor Kossakovsky

Screenplay by:
Victor Kossakovsky, Tatiana Stepanova

Cinematography:
Victor Kossakovsky

Edited by:
Victor Kossakovsky

Music:
Alexander Popov

Producer:
Victor Kossakovsky

Produced by:
Victor Kossakovsky Film Production