2nd Place Winner of 2007 New Jersey Young Film & Videomakers Festival
“Talia’s Dacha” touches Russian phenomena of importance of “return to the soil” in the historical perspective as well as cultural. From personal standpoint, in this short video, I dealt with my own ancestry and couple of main characters whose tie it all together – the grandmother, the aunt, the dog and the cat.
2006 | 3:03 mins | Video. Archive Footage.
Collaboration with Michelle Mumoli.
"Burgeoning" - to grow and flourish, "senesce"- to grow old , is an experimental narrative short interweaving hand drawn animation, found home movie footage and video.
This piece deals with notions of womanhood and issues of how time takes its toll on women's bodies, hearts and minds. Using animation and montage, we treated this short as a "combine" sequential paintings, creating multiple layers of artifice, fleeting dreams and thoughts.
2009 | 4:35 mins | Video. Media Footage.Motion Graphics.
In NINETY ONE, I explored the cultural and economic evolution of early 90s in the Soviet Union, through my recollection of memory from childhood.
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