Dimitri Lurie

A study on refraction of light and sensations in a prism of the artist's memories imprinted on Super8-mm.

Dimitri Lurie 2001

Allegorical creative documentary aimed to exercise a search for answers to life’s unpronounced questions in the labyrinth of a medieval medina.

Super 8mm Film

Film by Dmitry Lurye.

A visualisation of a classical love triangle.

Several animated men walking.

A film by Dmitry Lurye.

A film-observation of the state of the atmosphere through the eyes of a lyrical hero - an ascetic meteorologist who lives and works surrounded by ice and snow at a meteorological station lost in the forests of the Valaam archipelago.

Unerased diaries.

An experimental music video where shadow-like people move in a rhythm of reggae in the spaciousness of a snow-white chilled jungle touched by a cool sunlight.

An amateur takes a film camera to prove that all images of his memories are nothing else but shadows of the mutable space beneath yet another window he observes the world through.

The video work "The Sun Monopoly" by Dimitri Lurie explores the phenomenon of sunlight deficit in modern cities.

This experimental film explores a metaphorical world of inner dilemmas. The title refers to the protagonist's tragic choice between two life concepts, where "C" stands for Christian (the Apollonian) and "D" for Dionysian (the Dionysian).

One day, Jeff finds an old bowler hat at an antique shop. The hat belonged to an eccentric old gentleman, keeper of the true history of the small post-industrial town. When Jeff puts on the hat, he sees ghosts from the town's glory days. These visions help Jeff reveal his own personality.

A film by Dmitry Lurye.

The film is a road-movie-like investigation opposing an original folk story, concerning local events during the Second World War, to an official communist propaganda myth-like presentation of the same episodes of history, that remained in state ordered books, films and memorial museums. Through the confrontation of facts, the film reveals the fact a legendary local guerrilla-girl was most likely a witch, whose power was probably used by soviet authorities to put a spell on the “Reichsfürer”, Adolph Hitler, during his secret visit to the Seliger region, where his grand-mother had her roots.

"If one read a book by Michael Boulgakov, Master and Margaret he would understand who I have been looking for. Well, the camera was, simply, often in my hands for self- identification. And montage became a six month long self-treatment." - Dimitri Lurie

A triptych of generations depicts the nowdays Iranian society through their involvment in the traditional commemoration of Ashura.

What is that obstacle between two humans, preventing them of going free and boundless? Who placed this "cactus" of the common moral and public opinion on a love ground? Drop it, smash it and move away in any direction before it has been carefully planted back.