Igor Aleynikov
Directing
Biography
Igor Aleynikov was born in Grozny, lived and worked in Moscow, died together with his wife Vera in a plane crash near Mezhdurechensk. The ideologist of the creation and leader of the movement "parallel cinema", which gave a socio-cultural niche to independent filmmakers. Popularizer of the movement. The creator of the "parallel cinema" film festival is CINE FANTOM. The editor-in-chief of the "Samizdat" magazine about cinema is CINE FANTOM. Author and director of more than 30 films. Participant and jury member of several international film and video festivals.
Known For
Vasily Ivanovich once met with his killer… Collectivism, freedom, stupidity, fun - the main principles of the St. Petersburg underground are filmed with the help of a new myth about the heroic Chapai.
The Members of the "Che-payevs" Society Talking
The remake of the original 1939 "Tractor Drivers"... Same heroes, but totally different times.
Tractor Drivers 2
One of the most impressive symbols of a happy Soviet life, peaceful labour and rich harvest. Being mystified to the highest degree, the film acquires traits of a mystical animal, a human being and just a machine.
Tractors
A man looks for his friend, but finds himself instead...
Somebody Was Here...
The brothers Aleinikov lay out turgid governmental speeches about "the rearing of a new man" under footage of dudes goofing around in space-alien costumes. They roll footage of apple-cheeked future Stakhanovites upside down and backwards. They crudely animate - in a certain South Parkian way - CCCP (USSR) icons in a goofy manner.
Revolutionary Sketches
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Post-Political Cinema
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Америга
The piece presents a series of bizarre tableaux, many involving cinematic voyeurism, blurring of the living-dead borderline and a healthy amount of stabbing, of oneself and of others. A catatonic fellow gets costumed as a ghoul; a literal tree-hugger, ecstatic in his arboreal embrace, gets stabbed; a bespectacled fellow with a Bolex-y camera goes around documenting it all.
I'm Cold. So What?
Based on paintings by the artist Oleg Golosiy.
Nikolay Berezkin's Love Story
The waste of the toy factory "Ogonyok", clumps of multicolored thermally deformed plastic, turn into a new biological species, then into a new direction of modern art, then into an isolated language of a native tribe discovered by linguists in the jungle, where words must be carried silently with you and shown if necessary, then into heroes of crazy phantasmagoric news.
M. E.
Experimental short.
Happy End
Since part of the filming was carried out on the 9th floor, from the window of the Biryulevskaya high-rise building, as if from the point of view of an angel, only not flying, but sitting in a high tower.
Top Point
Under a score of abbreviated drones and freeform woodwinds, the Aleinikov brothers cut together a series of images, found and made, that look unfailingly bleak, industrial or both bleak and industrial: disused factories, clunky utilitarian machinery, strings of unsettlingly young violinists, old-timey group portraits with everyone's eyes scratched out. Interspersed are less overtly sinister but somehow eerier snatches of action, like a circling brood of crude stop-motion mice or a bunch of little wooden people chopping wood and sawing logs, all differently affected by the vagaries time and the physical world foist onto film stock.
Cruel Illness of Men
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Waiting for de Bil
A musical film featuring Sergei Letov's band "Tri O".
Mirages
Aquarium Fish of This World is the story of the relationship between the captain and the boatswain, temporarily written off ashore, with a young guy who dreams of becoming a cabin boy.
Aquarium Fish of This World
The interaction of viewers and films on the screen.
Palimpsest
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Typist
Experimental short.
Russian Roulette
A drinking play with cannons and fireworks.