2004 Red Shift Program:
January 14, 2004
2004 Red Shift Program: January 15, 2004
2004 Jury Members
Filmmaker Profiles
Sponsors
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2004 Filmmakers' Profiles
Signe Baumane was born in Latvia. At
the age of 18 she went to Moscow where she obtained a BA in Philosophy.
In 1989 she worked in Riga's Animated Film Studio as a cell painter and
a part-time animator. From 1991 to 1995 she made three films on Latvian
Government Grants. By 1995, tired of waiting and fighting for government
grants, she moved to New York, looking for independence. Here she studied
with one of the best teachers of Animated Independence - Bill Plympton,
Working on 3 of his features and countless shorts, Signe learned how an
independent animation studio works. In 1998 she made her first animated
film on American soil. To date, she had made 8 animated shorts.
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Alina and Jeff
Bliumis are New York-based artists. In 2002 Alina and Jeff started
a project called "Videolog" - a series of video shorts about
legendary personalities, intellectuals and artists. By 2004 they completed
six films for the series: 2003-"Rap" (Russian Aura of Pennsylvania),
"VA BACH" (Vagrich Bachchanyan) and "ERNST" (Ernst
Neizvestny), 2004 - "Art Ministry" (Komar and Melamid), "Bokov"
(Konstantin Bokov) and "In Three Parts" (Leonid Sokov). Videolog
was featured at many screenings including Word in Motion Festival, Riga,
Latvia; Red Shift 2003 Festival, NYC and EVA, Electronic Imaging - the
Visual Arts Conference at The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
The team, Alina and Jeff, are currently working on other shorts for the
series.
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Irina Danilova Born in Kharkov, Ukraine,
Irina is a visual and performance artist. Her installations were shown
in Islip and Weisman Art Museums, Spaces and Joys Goldstein Gallery. She
has exhibited in Germany, Bulgaria, Iceland, Russia and Ukraine. As a
performance artist she appeared in Cleveland and Santiago international
Performance festivals, and in Franklin Furnace's The Future of the Present.
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Yevgeniy Fiks is a New York-based interdisciplinary
artist and writer. He was born in Moscow in 1972 and moved to New York
in 1994. Yevgeniy's works have been shown in Moscow, New York, Los Angeles,
London, Frankfurt and Havana. His texts appeared in the Moscow Art Magazine,
NY Arts Magazine, Artforum, Tema Celeste and Artmargins. Yevgeniy studied
at the Surikovsky Institute in Moscow and at the School of Visual Arts
in New York.
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Yuriy Gavrilenko is a New York-based
visual artist, filmmaker and provocateur. In the early 1990's he co-founded
the "Album" publishing house - the publisher of "Who Is
Who In Contemporary Moscow Art Scene". In 1997 he produced "New
York Tusovka" - a documentary about Russian art activities in New
York. Over the last two years, Yuriy has co-produced such films as "20
Cans of Chunky Beef Soup" -a documentary about a homeless Russian
artist, "Friends My Ass", portraying the lives of seven young
Russian professionals in New York City. "Public Figure" is Yuriy's
latest work in collaboration with Dmitriy Rozin, which portrays the life
of Yuriy Kapralov, an established writer and artist, who has been living
in the East Village since 1965. Yuriy is currently working on a one-hour
animation project about the legendary muse of Vladimir Mayakovsky, Lilia
Brik.
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Marina Goldovskaya is one of Russia's
most prominent documentary filmmakers. She has made twenty nine films
as a director, cinematographer and writer and fifty TV Programs as a director
of photography for the Austrian, French, German, Russian and US Television.
She has been teaching Documentary Filmmaking around the world since 1969.
In 1993, she became a professor at the University of California Los Angeles
School of Film and Television. Her film credits include the award-winning
"Solovky Power" about the horrors of Soviet Concentration camps
and "A Taste for Freedom" about Glasnost, which she made for
Turner Television
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Mihalis Gripiotis has been the NY correspondent
for the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation for the past 4 years. He is
co-founder and co-director of IFFI Productions, a New York-based firm
specializing in independent film and documentary production. His latest
work, the documentary "Fall in NY", dealing with the 9/11 attacks,
was presented at the Film Festival "Primerio Bizzari" in Italy,
2002. In 2001 he completed the Photojournalism Program at the International
Center of Photography in NYC. Before moving to New York, he reported for
seven years for the commercial TV and radio network ALPHA NEWS in Greece.
Mihalis studied Mass Media and Communications at Panteion University in
Athens, Greece.
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Sabina Hahn was born in Riga, Latvia.
In 1992 her family moved to New York. A graduate of Pratt Institute, she
works as a freelance designer, illustrator and animator. She is an extraordinary
young artist with a special taste for details. Her work is full of artistic
touch.
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Olga Kisseleva is one of the most accomplished
young artists of Parisian art-scene. A graduate of St. Petersburg University,
on the invitation from the Fulbright Foundation, Olga found a roof for
her work in the research group which dealt with the development of digital
technologies. In 1996 she received her PhD and an invitation to teach
in Sorbonne. Her exhibitions include: National Center for Contemporary
Art (Moscow), MoMA(Paris), Russian Museum (St. Petersburg), KIASMA (Helsinki),
Pompidou Center (Paris), Machida Art Museum (Tokyo), Art Institute, (Chicago),
Venice, Istanbul, Dakar and Tirana Biennials.
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Alexandra Lerman Sasha is a young visual
artist and filmmaker living between New York, London, and St. Petersburg.
She is a lover of every form of moving image, from experimental video
to big budget films. She has written about video art, as well as the relationship
between man and technology for various Russian magazines. She also raveled
as a documentary filmmaker to the Yaroslavl' Contemporary Dance Festival
producing her first experimental dance film "Life Forms" with
British choreographer Lizzy Le Quesne. At this year's Red Shift Festival
she presents a view of nighttime St. Petersburg in collaboration with
a young Russian poet Darya Belova.
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Nataliya Lyakh Born in St. Petersburg,
Nataliya is a Ph.D in neuro-linguistics, brain asymmetry and speech processing.
However, several years of experimental scientific research did not hinder
her artistic development as she continues to experiment with photography
and video art. During the last couple of years Nataliya devoted herself
full-time to video and photography, working in Paris, Stockholm, Istanbul,
Milano, Rome, New York, London and participating in various art shows.
She currently lives between Paris and NYC and is finishing her first long
52min film.
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Mirek Nisenbaum
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Dmitry Povolotsky was born and raised
in Moscow Russia where he was sent to The Bolshoi Ballet Academy for being
overactive. In 1995 he received his BFA from the Juilliard School in New
York. He currently performs with the Metropolitan Opera Ballet and teaches
at Harlem School of The Arts. Dmitry was one of the filmmakers behind
the "Friends My Ass" documentary presented at the Red Shift
Festival in 2003. This year he collaborated with IFFI Productions and
directed two videos "The Hotel" and "The Roof". "The
Roof "premiered in December 2003 at the Dance on Video Festival in
NYC.
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Maria Reshetnikova graduated from Moscow
State University in 1991. Journalist, screenwriter, producer, documentary
filmmaker. Freelance news reporter for ORT (Moscow), RTVi (New York),
Russian Hour (London). In 2002 together with Roman Volvich, cameraman
and partner co-founded Open Mind TV Production House independent company
dedicated to generate and implement original creative ideas for television
channels around the world. Latest projects include investigating reports,
special programs on political, social and cultural issues. Since 1997
lives in New York. - Work in progress: New York without Lights documentary
investigating and analyzing existence of the American Dream. Based on
stories of lives of youngsters from the City Housing Projects.
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Dmitriy Rozin immigrated to United
States from St. Petersburg in 1992. In 1996 he graduated from Brooklyn
College with a BA degree in film production after which he worked as an
Assistant Camera on several feature films in New York City. In 2001 he
graduated from Pratt Institute with an MFA degree in Computer Graphics
and Interactive Media. The thesis that he presented was an interactive
video installation "Body-Active". Currently, he works as a videographer
and a video editor in New York. His personal film and video work as well
as interactive video performances were shown as part of several film festivals
and screenings at Anthology Film Archives, DV Dojo, Makor Center, etc.
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Alexander Shnurov and Victor
Olenev: ARTHEALING was born in 1997 as a result of collaboration
of two artists, Alexander Shnurov and Victor Olenev, during their investigation
into the phenomenon of art. Since 1974 Alexander Shnurov participated
in the exhibitions of Nonconformist artist in the Soviet Union and in
the West. In 1989 he moved to the USA, where he presently resides and
works on advancing the Cause of Art in the global arena. Victor Olenev
moved to the USA from Soviet Union in 1974 after participating in the
first exhibition of Nonconformist artists at Izmailovo. His work deals
with researching and developing the principles of visionary art. In 1998
ARTHEALING created and tested an instrument for objective evaluation of
works of art. ARTHEALING consists of creating the healing images and performing
the actual healing on people by utilizing a perfected version of the Apparatus
for Measuring Beauty and Determining Healing or Harmful Energies of Works
of Art. The success of ARTHEALING attracted a growing following of artists.
Among them are Melamid and Komar.
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Michael Shraga was born in Kiev, Ukraine
in 1984. He relocated to New York in 1994. Michael is an endeavoring artist
with an avid interest in painting, animation and illustration. After involvement
in graphic design studies, Michael's desire to receive a more traditional
education propelled him toward the pursuit of fine art. During his free
time Michael enjoys participating in a number of diverse projects such
as experimenting with music.
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Slava Tsukerman has directed more then
50 films of different genres in Russia, Israel and US He has received
13 awards from numerous international film festivals. Tsukerman's cult
classic film Liquid Sky was described by VIRGIN FILM GUIDE as "one
of the most original and hallucinatory films in memory...a stunning cultural
collage". Liquid Sky has broken all the box office and duration records
in USA and all over the World. Tsukerman's documentary Once Upon a Time
There Were Russians in Jerusalem, was a first prize winner at the Tenth
World Festival of TV films in Hollywood. Israeli newspaper HAOLAM HASE
described it as "One of the most outstanding films that had ever
appeared on Israeli Television, and possibly the very best. "
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Maria Vasilkovsky Born and raised in
Moscow, Maria received academic training in drawing, painting and sculpture
at The Stroganov School of design. In 1990 she immigrated to US where
she had spent two years at Boston University and one year at Haifa University
in Israel studying Marine Biology. In 1995 she received a BFA in Film
and Animation from the Rhode Island School of Design. From 1995 to 1998
Maria continued her studies at the California Institute of the Arts, where
she received her MFA in Experimental Animation. From April 1999 until
present she is an animator for Loko Pictures.
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Aliona Yurtsevich was born into a family
of professional musicians in Minsk, Belarus. She studied classical piano
while sewing and knitting cloths for her dolls as a hobby. After 11 years
of musical schooling and a Bachelor's degree in classical music and pedagogy
from the Belarus Academy Of Music, Aliona moved to New York (1993) and
her passion for fashion design emerged. She complemented her classical
piano background by taking fashion design classes at Parsons and FIT while
working for major knitwear companies. In 1999 at the age of 29, Aliona
launched her own collection Co. of unorganized people. Working on presenting
her clothing line for each season during the fashion week, she learned
to express her thoughts and ideas through multimedia.
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Darya Zhuk left Minsk, Belarus at the
age of 16 to attend college in United States. Today, she is 23 and a recent
graduate of Harvard University where she had studied film and video. Her
thesis short film "What Do You Do For A Living?" was shown at
The Sarasota Film Festival in Florida earlier this year. "Trampoline"
is her first finished video since she moved to Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
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