Airplanes

I always liked to work with choreographers making videos for them. Their high level of spontaneity was always helping me to push my creative horizons and not be afraid to create new stories, new story lines right in the moment, during the shooting.

We did not plan to add any story to this dancing video. It was created suddenly when we saw a kite seller near the metro station where we were gathering.

The openness of my colleagues, my friends, my co-authors helped me to add a romantic background to this dancing video.

September, 2010
Magenta Production

Brainstorm "Waves"

Music is a magical media that can tune our mood, change our emotions. But not always we are on the same wave with people that are around us. We can like each other from the first sight. But during approaching more and more somethimes we find differences in our attitudes that we cannot deal with.

I knew that Anita Berkhane, with whom I made friends during our work on a project "Circumstances" (2008) is a talented actress always ready to experiment. She never studied acting before but was very organic to any situation. We made this short video clip with Anita, actor Roman Sorokin and my assistant Irina Todyryak during one ride in a trolleybus. We did not have any permissions from the transport department. We just were very comfortable for other passengers and acted naturally.

September, 2009
Magenta Production

Online Hip-Hop Lesson

For promoting his dancing studio and his hip-hop lessons my friend, choreographer Alexey Simba asked me to make a video of a dancing lesson. This format was quite new to me and this fact made me to agree. I always try to work in different genres to extend the range of my abilities.

Our aim was not only to show the choreograhphy, but to show the spirit of this dance, to add some jokes that could show the charisma of the teacher and make him more attractive for the future students.

I acted on this video as a cameraman, director and editor.

April, 2012
T2

Dirty Dance

I was asked by a very talented in Moscow dancer, dj and celebrity Sam Zakharov to make a dancing video with a soundtrack "Dirty Dance". And this video had to include some love story.

The music felt sinister and ominous to me. That's why I created a story with a vampire. We were shooting mostly at night in Moscow without permissions that did not cause any problems. It was the highest moment of freedom and creativity with two talented people - Sam Zakharov and Anita Berkhane. I always knew how supportive, undemanding and bright Anita can be. That was the reason I asked her to play the role of the vampire.

Sam Zakharoff

Sergei Shorokh

This is one of the videos made in a cycle "This is Just a Decease". My friend, colleague and my mentor - film director Pavel Ruminov was always thinking about the theme of cancer. It was a presonal story of his family. And finally he has found a determination to start working with this very serious topic.

Paul wrote a script for a full-length feature film about a woman suffering from cancer and looking for step parents for her son. During the preparational period we were visiting clinics where we were making interviews with patients having treatment and finally Paul came to the idea of making an inspiring cycle about people that got a course of chemoterapy and returned to their life. That became happy, healthy and full of life again.

March, 2012
Podari Zhizn

This Is Just A Decease - Pavel Mazhara

I made this video as a part of our cycle "This Is Just a Decease" - documentaries telling the stories of the people (mostly kids) that had cancer but after treatment recovered.

It is a story of boy, Pavel Mazhara that was getting the treatment around 2 years in Saint-Petersburg. His mother tells that during this time he had some dietary restrictions. There were certain types of food that could not be desinfected properly, so Pavel could not eat it. And missing his favourite hamburgers, hotdogs, icecream Pavel started to paint them every day. After recovering he still felt that his passion is in painting.

June, 2010
Podari Zhizn

Artists: Portraits

Mentor Cinema

20. Тана Тораджа. Мегалитические камни

Вспоминая гигантские статуи острова Пасхи, комплекс Стоунхендж для описания своих чувств люди чаще всего используют слова загадочный, мистический. Возведение этих мегалитических конструкций приписывают инопланетянам и легендарным великанам, которые могли существовать когда-то на планете.

В средние века считалось, что мегалиты были когда-то возведены гигантами, которые населяли землю до всемирного потопа.

В Торадже тоже есть свои мегалиты. Они ничуть не менее мистические и загадочные. Несмотря на то, что создаются в наше время вполне земными людьми и устанавливаются ими же.

Film "Father": Yarosavl

Mentor Cinema

11. Тана Тораджа. Рынок буйволов

Тана Тораджа, провинция индонезийского острова Сулавеси, славится особой любовью к буйволам.

Даже на центральном рынке есть специальный день для продажи буйволов. Этот рынок называют Пасар Болу. В переводе с тораджийского – рынок бетеля.

Конечно, продают на рынке не только бетель. А раз в шесть дней на рынке бетеля - специальный базарный день, посвященный буйволам.

Сюда приходят торговцы и покупатели со всего региона.

Те, кто живут недалеко или не могут обзавестись транспортом, приводят буйволов пешком. Из дальних провинций буйволов привозят в трейлерах.

I Will Be Around

A website for the film of Pavel Ruminov "I will be around". Paul's interviews, information about the actors, blog of the film, list of crew and photographs.

I made this website as a web-designer and content manager.

May, 2011

Gunung Mas