Daniil Lebedev // Films
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Heaven and Home
2023
30′
After the beginning of the war in Ukraine, a group of friends decide to flee Russia and settle on an island in the Marmara sea near Istanbul. The film, starting at this point as a kind of travelogue, gradually develops into a meditation on home and exile.
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Membrane
Video: Daniil Lebedev
Music: Nika Pasuri
2022
5′56″
The voice is coming to a man sitting alone at the table.
Words come in and go out of his conscience, as if through a membrane. On which side of it is the speaker?
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Serpentine
Video: Daniil Lebedev
Music: Narek Bagratuni
2022
9′36″
Serpentine dance is one of the earliest artistic forms in film history.
It was devised by Loïe Fuller in the 1890s and involved a performer wearing a light, voluminous costume with two sticks attached. The dancer would swish and twirl their costume using the sticks, creating a fluid and graceful swirl of fabric.
Films featuring serpentine dances were painted frame by frame with a brush by women colorists. Therefore, very few colored prints of any given film existed. Even fewer have come down to us: in its early days, cinema was considered only a form of popular entertainment, and many early films were simply thrown away after they had gone out of fashion.
Serpentine is a tribute to the early cinema and its path to discovery of the artistic value of motion.
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