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Petr Laden

Petr Laden

Directing

Biography

Artist and film maker Graduated Department of Physics of MSU (2005) and Rodchenko Art School (2009)

Known For

Mad Mimes
10.0

An anthropological study of a cargo cult in a fictitious self-marginalized commune, which existed next to the Moscow Ring Road - a highway that marks the boundaries of the Russian capital - and survived mainly on roadside trash. Although the road provided for their basic needs, the existence of the commune was extremely precarious and highly dependent on the roadway's fluctuations. This dependency led them to develop a cargo cult of the road.

Mad Mimes

2012
When New Year Comes on Shabbat
10.0

A cinematic collage about people caught between two worlds. An empathetic look at a physical journey and the melodramas of a journey that is spiritual. Nikita Pavlov emigrated from Russia to Israel because he always wanted to experience life in another country. Street protests, political activism, and his daughters first steps are captured without any chronological context, separated only by Pavlovs thoughts and ideas. A cinematic diary that attempts to piece together a hypothetical picture of the filmmakers future.

When New Year Comes on Shabbat

2012
Tomorrow will be the same
10.0

Insatiable lust reigned over senseless flesh. Like august flies, trying to escape certain death, people before the apocalypse started to copulate, until every single one was completely exhausted. Only two people remained untouched. Having merged, like Salmacis and Hermaphroditus, in music that gave them eternal life, they wander timeless, empty spaces. Their destiny - to save humanity. But humanity means nothing to them. Main characters of the movie, Kirill Shirokov and Sasha Elina, are real musicians and founders of 'the same' ensemble, specialized in performing quite music related to certain space and time. During the film they perform music from ‘every day melodies’ series composed by Kirill Shirokov. The movie is the first part of mini-series discovering the territory of contemporary art music.

Tomorrow will be the same

2017
The Way of Samodelkin
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A mystical detective story set in the realm of Moscow art scene. Psychedelic trip through different places, characters and strategies in the search for the Author, covering mythology of Moscow art from the period of 1980-2010. The movie is based on the 'Inspection Medical Hermeneutics' group's text of the same name and on the historical research performed by the authors of the film. Production was an experiment in collective film making experience.

The Way of Samodelkin

2009
Saving Komitas
10.0

The story is built around an excerpt from the biography of director Vladimir Alenikov, known for films and books about Petrov and Vasechkin. Vladimir Alenikov in 1974 undertook the production of a film about the greatest man in Armenia, Komitas, an Armenian composer and musician. For the sake of the film, he is ready to put everything on the line, give up big money, personal life, career. And it seems that success awaits him in Armenia. Hospitality and luck accompany at every step. Finally, here's the footage. The final is near. Suddenly a commission gathers and decides to destroy the film. But Alenikov does not give up until the last. Melodrama, comedy, thriller, tragedy, all genres converge in a short passage from the life of a famous director.

Saving Komitas

2020
Çiçek
N/A

In a small village somewhere on Anatolian plateau lives old former engineer with his daughter and wife`s ghost. He dreams about space and wants to reconstruct minarets into spaceships, for resurrected ancestors to conquer distant stellar worlds. He is supposed crazy by former colleagues and village people, but loved for his kindness and wisdom. Due to his weak health and illness young daughter puts all her power into keeping house and searching for cure. She shares all her young soul love between father and theatre. Once she meets a woman on a side of a road and takes her home. This changes the life order in the family. Meanwhile a russian theatre director suspected in murder of his wife travels through Turkey in the search for inspiration. All people he meets, dies mysteriously. There is destiny for them to meet. Film is made mixing documentary and staged approach with most actors – unprofessional locals.

Çiçek

2016
Farewell to Fireplace
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The movie is based on Vladimir Mayakovsky’s script that was never filmed. The protagonist is a young Marxist artist leading a bohemian life. At a party he dies of an overdoes and is placed in a cryoreservoir. After 20 years he is transported to the Institute of Man and a decision is taken to resurrect him. But will the protagonist find a place for himself in a new ideal world?

Farewell to Fireplace

2013
Ilyenkov
10.0

The Soviet philosopher Evald Ilyenkov tries to purge Marxism of ideological cliches, but is rebuffed by his colleagues and the Soviet authorities. The struggle for a true philosophy turns into a tragedy for him and his family.

Ilyenkov

2017
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Short SciFi film about love and technology

TooMatch

2021
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Horror film on the edge of dream and reality

This is just a dream

2020