Vadim Kostrov
1998 (27 лет)In 2016 moved to Moscow. In 2017 studies in VGIK (Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography) on the faculty Dramaturgy. Shoots his first short documentary film. The "Silent Night" solely on iPhone. In 2018 leaves VGIK due to the pressure and censorship from masters. Makes his first feature documentary "Loft-Underground" — a VHS story of the Moscow art-underground culture through the prism of art Squats of 80-s 90-s and the present days. 2019 Vadim starts to work on his Ural series that include the doc-trilogy : "Narodnaya" (2019), "After Narodnaya" (2020), and "Comet" (2020). As well as his autobiographical works "Orpheus" (2019), "Summer" (2020), "Winter" (2021).
Vadim's interests lie in the connection between fiction and documentary, exploration of memories and nostalgia , filmic relationship between camera — time, and camera — nature.
Лето
Vadim Kostrov
Set in Nizhny Tagil, Russia, Summer journeys nostalgically through the warm middle-Ural summer with eight-year-old Vadim and his half-sister Christina. They enjoy evening festivities with their older teenage friends by the fire, go on mellow skateboard rides, and have a quiet daytime nap in the garden house. Caressed by the sun and the warmth of his relatives, hidden in the quiet tranquillity of the garden and far away from the cruelty of the outside world, Vadim enjoys his childhood days. Acting as a serene lullaby that mimics the movements of a gentle breeze, Summer provides warmth, joy and solace, offering hope and strength for the future.
Summer
Орфей
Vadim Kostrov
Vadim Kostrov, Anna Larkin
The movie was shot at the junction of documentary and fiction films. The film takes the viewer into the late Ural summer of 2019 and immerses us in the real life of today's youth, with all its uncertainty, fragility, pain, despair and aspirations.
Orpheus
Осень
Vadim Kostrov
In Orpheus (FID 2021), Vadim Kostrov returned as a young man to the industrial city of his youth, Nijni Taguil, in the Urals. A year later, we’re back in the same city, but in a different timeframe. Little Vadim, ten years old, carries a satchel and wears a yellow cap. The grown-up Vadim follows him as he wanders from shot to shot, day and night, in the changing light of early autumn. With zooms, overprints, velvety DV and variations of points of view, Kostrov works on forms and colours like a solitary painter. The child guides the filmmaker he’s become through the density of time. Leaves and steel merge into the same rusty colour. Although the Soviet tank, a monument to the glory of local industry, is just another game for the schoolboy astride its gun, the young, melancholic filmmaker has no need to comment on it to set darker, more painful harmonies onto the image. (Cyril Neyrat)
Fall
Ада и Максим
Vadim Kostrov
ADA a 23 year old girl. She was born in Nizhny Tagil, studied in Moscow at the University of Journalism and Literature, then she returned to her hometown. Maxim - a 23 year old man, He is a Polish Jew who works at the Uralvagonzavod foundry. This film takes us to the beginning of 2020 for an unusual wedding. The wedding of the young Satanists Ada and Maxim, who live on the outskirts of the city, in solitude near the forest and the cemetery. They leave the house mostly at nights to perform various rituals. This is an observation of a restless soul, seeking freedom and happiness, in a world that seems to her a dark cell.
Ada and Maxim
Зато, свободный
Vadim Kostrov
A reflection on freedom, filmed at the end of summer in one of the closed military camps, the full name of which is "ZATO Svobodny". Residents of Svobodny of different ages answer questions about what is freedom? Are they free? And is "Svobodny" Free?
But Free
Народная
Vadim Kostrov
Filmed in the latter half of summer, 2019, 'Narodnaya' follows the travails of a garage gallery opened by members of the Nizhniy Tagil underground as it prepares and hosts concerts and an exhibition, revealing in the process the philosophies and principles of the curators and artists who create this one-season gallery.
Narodnaya
Комета
Vadim Kostrov
Few days, two concerts in the one night in the heart of the Moscow. Film-concert about Moscow's trip of the Nizniy Tagil's underground rock-group «lazy comet» in the end of the winter 2020th. The closing part of trilogy , which have started with «Narodnaya», where director Vadim, will be participate as vocalist. «Me, and my friends!»
Cometa
Семья
Vadim Kostrov
On December 31, 2017, there were only a few hours left before the new year, and a friend of mine came to celebrate the new year with one "family" in the very center of the capital.. this film, shot spontaneously, sums up the results of 2017, informing and enclosing all the absurdity and absurdity of everything that is happening in our country.
Family
Пацаны
Vadim Kostrov
Boys — A short story — about the guys who stay away from the art underground, they just work at the local fast food cafe but in their free time, work with cars in the garage and making rap. But they have something to say at the beginning of 2020th. We will ride along the snowy streets of Tagil with them, we will go to a party at the house of the director Vadim, whose old friends are the "boys". Boys will make a rap, talk about their lives and share of personal revelations. "It's better to live in poverty than to interfere people with shit»-said Nikita , one of the «Boys».
Boys
