Artdokfest. Beauty

Film about the life of the rapper in the Russian outback

In Moscow, St. Petersburg and Yekaterinburg, in December 2016, the Artdokfest documentary festival will be held. Several films from the competitive program are shown on October 15-23 in Riga as part of the International Film Festival. Twice a week, the President of Artdokfest Vitaly Mansky tells at Medusa about all films participating in the competition. In this material, "Medusa" represents the picture "Beauty" Christina Kuzhakhmetova (Russia, 2016). Attention: there is obscene vocabulary in the trailer.

Going into the ArtdoxFest contest is a rather difficult task for the director with the name and for the novice author, but the value of the ticket for the debutant, of course, is always higher. It is necessary to break through conservatism, stereotypes, which, unfortunately, even we have Artdoxfest Selects. I would put the film "Beauty" on a separate step - this is not only a debut, but also the shortest film of the competition - 26 minutes. This is not even a debut, but the student work of the St. Petersburg State Institute of Culture. Nevertheless, we immediately felt that this film is for us.

If I had to present the film in just one phrase, I would say that this is a documentary adaptation of the famous quote “When you knew from what litter ...” the picture was shot in an indefinite Russian province and is dedicated to the young poet who writes either poetry, or rap or poetic prose. Thanks to the author of the film, which also creates a poetic work, we really see and feel what kind of poetry is born from. There is such a phrase in the film: “Will you idolize somewhere there? And we are you ********* [beat] somewhere here ”-and in general, this is a certain key to understanding the situation. How and where in this devastated lifeless space, which is not able to serve the soil to grow a creative genius, talent breaks through. In Russia, he has to break through everything - and this is unconditional beauty.

Of course, we were bribed that the picture was made by cinematographically very voluminous - this is such cinematic impressionism, and with directorial confidence. When you understand that confidence comes from a young girl who has not even entered the profession, it is impressive. I emphasize, I’m not talking about professionalism - the craft can be quickly learned, but to switch to the next level - so freely expressing thoughts and easy to compose cinematographic poetry - maybe not everyone can. The student professionally collects a picture with also sensuality - which is the highest achievement of cinema as such and documentary in particular.

PS about other films from the competitive program "Artdocfest" can be found here .