Oleksandr Fraze-Frazenko
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Biography
Oleksandr Fraze-Frazenko is a filmmaker, poet, photographer, translator, musician. Co-founder of "OFF Laboratory" production studio. Born in Lviv, Ukraine. Known for his feature documentaries about Ukrainian artists, including poets ("Chubai" in 2014, "The House on Seven Winds" in 2015, "An Aquarium in the Sea" in 2016). Also documents important cultural events. Archive includes several hundred film and video works. Engaged in producing of commercial advertising and music videos. The first feature film "Don't lie to me" was presented in 2016 at Wiz-Art Lviv International Short Film Festival. Is also an author of 10 poetry books: "The Story of a Killer" (2007), "First. Middle. Last" (2008), "Twilight House" (2009), "Mass" (2010), "The days of Loss" (2014), "The Hole. Short selected" (2015), "Nota Tirona" (2015), "Wolves. Verses: Volume 1" (2016), "The Smallest of Children. Verses: Volume 2" (2016). Translator of the first poetry book of Jim Morrison in Ukraine. He also translates English poetry of the Restoration Period including works of John Rochester. Plays improvisational music and indie-rock. Discography consists of more than 50 albums.
Known For
Surrealistic film with two characters who are the one person. Or not. They can't be together but constantly looking for possibilities. Or not. They want to live. Or not.
Don't Lie to Me
After a night with his boyfriend, a young man goes to buy a morning coffee. He gets hit by a car and dies. How can his story unfold? What happens to a person after death? What if all the theories we used to believe in do not work?
I'm Here
The documentary about Ukrainian modernist poet of the 20th century Ihor Kalynets, a long-term political prisoner convicted of poetry. The film depicts his day from the waking moment until the night.
Mister Nobody
A woman is surprised by an attacker in her own apartment.
Milena
In the middle of ХХ century the Ukrainian cultural elite faced the problem of choice: to escape and save their national identity or assimilate and remain in the Soviet Union. The film tells the story of New York Group of Poets, founded in 1950. Ukrainian poets, who grew up in the English-speaking world, in the middle of XX century are trying to preserve their culture and grow it to the level of world culture.
An Aquarium in the Sea. The Story of the New York Group of Poets
A tribute to a Psycho by Alfred Hitchcock.