Section: Short Film Competition

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I close my Eyes

Andrey Taratukhin

Russia, 2016, 25 Min

“Close your eyes. What can you hear? What are you thinking? What do you feel at this exact moment? Where are you? With whom, and why?” This fantastically shot portrait provides insight into the inner life of a young woman due to undergo an operation in unconventional imagery that is both dreamlike and yet true to life.

ZEH 83

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“When we were little”, begins the woman, “we used to play a game: everyone counted as high as they could and when they stopped, that was the number of years they would live to. I could count to twenty.” During the May Day holidays she learns that she is critically ill and requires a transplant. “We spend our lives in anticipation. I'm tired of waiting for tomorrow. What if there turns out to be no tomorrow? Stop waiting! Close your eyes.” KF

Filmformat
DCP | Farbe / colour

Drehbuch
Andrey Taratukhin

Kamera
Dmitry Shebunin

Ton
Stanislav Paushev

Schnitt
Aleksandr Arsenev

Ausstattung
Irina Khodyush

Musik
Kirill Richter

Darsteller
Nadezhda Zharycheva, Mariana Shults, Aleksandr Oblasov, Roman Sinitsyn, Marishal Milavskaya

Produzent
Irina Khodyush

Produktion
ZEH 83

Kontakt
ZEH 83
Lucy Yakovleva
Novy Arbat 21
119019 Moscow
Russia
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yakovleva.lucy@gmail.com

Andrey Taratukhin - born 1983 in USSR. In 2005, he graduated in acting from the Russian State Institute of Performing Arts in St. Petersburg. Until 2011 he worked as an actor for theatrical, television and film productions. In 2012, he graduated from the directing programme at Artkino in Moscow, Russia.

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