Aleksandr Balagura
2021Loli Kali Shuba
Aleksandr Balagura
Prominent Ukrainian / Italian documentary film director Oleksandr Balahura (most known for link) visits Roma neighborhoods and social events in Zakarpattia (Western Ukraine) and re-visits his earlier work, "Widow-Street", shot on same locations in 1991. He also screens "Widow-Street" to its characters, whom he meets again in 2013.
Loli Kali Shuba
Le battement d'ailes d'un papillon
Aleksandr Balagura
WINGS OF BUTTERFLY (film about the unfinished film) "Three butterflies... Suddenly - two butterflies... And nobody has realized how the souls disappear..." Twenty-five years ago, in Kiev, his mother gave to the author a camcorder 16 mm. His friends and he, interested in cinema, started to make everyone own movie. Today, the camcorder has disappeared, as a part of the friends and the country where this happened. But the spools of the films shooted at that time stay. This new film tries to understand then the meaning of the initiated film, and perhaps, in a certain sense, to finish it...
Le battement d'ailes d'un papillon
Chas Zhyttia Objekta V Kadri (Film Pro Nezniatyi Film)
Aleksandr Balagura
The time of exposure is the life span of an object in frame. In this regard, no photo is just a two-dimensional graphic composition - it always has the third, temporal dimension. A photo is a time carrier, the vessel of memory... But whose memory? Of the Face or the Thing or the Landscape which are still on the photo? Of the photographer? A
Life Span of the Object in Frame (a Film about the Film not yet shot)
Antologion (Ukrainian Film)
Aleksandr Balagura
«Antologion (ukrainian film)» is a film of assemblage, - an attempt to imagine an ukrainian film with its own plot, aesthetics, intonation, an attempt to create an organic interlacement, a cine- rhapsody, founded on fragments of classical films produced in Ukraine during the soviet period. This film is a homage to the centennial of the cinema. For this the author is allowed the use of the "Pigeon flying" of Eadweard Muybridge as the image of the cinema. The dedication of the film is «To the happy ones who have gone»...
Antologion (Ukrainian Film)