Nikita Diakur
Directing
Biography
Nikita Diakur is a Russian-born filmmaker based in Germany. His most distinguished project Ugly has won multiple awards at international film festivals. The signature technique used in his films is dynamic computer simulation, which embraces spontaneity, randomness and mistakes.
Known For
An ugly cat struggles to coexist in a fragmented and broken world, eventually finding a soulmate in a mystical chief. Inspired by the internet story ‘Ugly the Cat’.
Ugly
Attempting a backflip is not exactly safe. You can break your neck, or land on your head, or land badly on your wrists. So, I let my avatar learn the trick. He practices on a 6-core processor with the help of Machine Learning.
backflip
Drone. Stunt. Rave.
Fest
Hacking a claw machine inside C4D.
Be a winner
What if I was somebody else, but only for a couple of seconds?