artists’ film


© All rights reserved Julian Charrière, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany
camera and editing assistant

assisting in filming and editing
for a video installation
called Controlled Burn
by Julian Charrière 
that adresses the flame as
a figure of excess, containment,
and renewal for our warming planet

Film by Julian Charrière 
Director: Johannes Förster 
Composition and sound design: Felix Deufel 
Drone Operator: Per Jacob Blut 
FPV Drone Pilots: Benno Knarr, Leon Knarr, Clemens Wronski 
Pyrotechnicians: Felix Rausch
Assistants to pyrotechnicians: Felix Münch, Vincent Schaack,
Christian Kuhlmann
Camera Assistants: Aurel Salzer, Maxim Pechersky
Data Wrangler: Phil Jungschlager 
Production Assistants: Yasmin Balai, Carl Maria Kemper,
Simon Mellnich, Alexander Paul Probst, Y-ul Suh, Cleo Waechter
Editor: Johannes Förster
Editing Assistants: Paloma Schnitzer, Maxim Pechersky

Sound design: Matthias Schubert
VFX Editors: Sean Sams, Seb Caudron,
Moritz Freudenberg, Neil Reynolds
Motion Graphics: Anika Spereiter
Colorist: Julien von Schultzendorff

Curated by Nadim Samman and Dehlia Hannah


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© All rights reserved Curver Thoroddsen, Rejkyavik, Iceland

director

directing and editing
The Struggle is Real,
a 16 mm film performance
starring Curver Thoroddsen and Ragnar Kjartansson

Performers: Curver Thoroddsen, Ragnar Kjartansson
Director and Editor: Maxim Pechersky
DOP: Yaroslav Golovkin, Liza Popova
1AC: Evgeny Gribkov
Producer: Alisa Kekelidze
Sound Recording: Dmitry Anufriev

Commissioned by V-A-C Foundation


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© All rights reserved Ayla Piero Arendt,Frankfurt am Main, Germany

director of photography

shooting 
Death in Peace, 
a 4-chanell video opera
that explores the limits of diplomacy
through opulent, layered,
and meticulously crafted visuals

Concept, Direction: Ayla Pierrot Arendt
Assistant Director, Dramaturgy: Kristina Roeder
Performance: Pia Epping, Tabea Gregory, Lucy-Jo Petermann, Carolina Saad Vasconcellos, Lara-Marie Weine
Choreography: Annabelle Dvir
Cinematography: Ayla Pierrot Arendt, Maxim Pechersky
Composition: Nika Pasuri, Ani Zakareishvili
Chorus Text: Davit Khorbaladze
Singing: Choir of the Kutaisi Opera, Georgia
Costume Design: Clara Rosina Strasser
Makeup: Beate Bauer
Assistant Makeup Artist: Rachel Ashton
Props Assistants: Josi Habel, Ina Röper, Nelly Granson
1st Camera: Maxim Pechersky
2nd Camera, Drone Operator: Aksel Steen Boelsmand
Camera Assistants: Tim Hartrick, Mona Nordhues
Lighting Design: Torben Schäfer, Emil Basting
Lighting Technicians: Jimmy Kömpel, Felix Dörnfeld
Editing: Ayla Pierrot Arendt, Paul Haas
Set Photography: Eike Walkenhorst
Production/Recording Management: Diana Koschlakov
Production Assistant: Maja Lindner
Internship: Alix Di Jusco

A production by Ayla Pierrot Arendt, in co-production with Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm. Supported by Hessen Film & Medien, the Cultural Office of the City of Frankfurt am Main, the Hessian Ministry for Science and Research, Arts and Culture, as well as by the Frankfurt am Main Authors' Foundation.

The artistic exchange with Georgian artists and the journey to Georgia were made possible by Culture Moves Europe, funded by the Goethe-Institut and the European Union. The previous research trips to Georgia in 2023 were financed by the Gwaertler Foundation.


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© All rights reserved Avni and Rebecca Dauti, Melbourne, Australia
supervising producer

producing
the shooting of Plastic Palace,
a film project done in collaboration with Australian artists
Avni and Rebecca Dauti
which explored the history
of the world’s first professional
Deaf theatre,
the Theatre of Mime and Gesture;
this project was funded by
the Australia Council for the Arts
and forms part of the artists ongoing research into the history of
Deaf architecture
and spaces in Europe

Director: Avni and Rebecca Dauti
Supervising Producer: Maxim Pechersky
DOP: Pavel Filileev
Gaffer: Fedor Velikoborec 
Talent: Mudaris Muzafarov
Set Designer: Darya Litvinova
Interpreter and Coordinator: Lyuda Luchkova
Research Consultant: Viktor Palennyy

The project is in post-production period. 



© All rights reserved Nastya Livadnova, Rostov-on-Don, Russia

video editor 

editing
It’s all about wrong moment in the right time,
a visual poem
by Nastya Livadnova

Edit: Maxim Pechersky
DOP: Aleksei Tokun
Executive Producers: Aleksei Tokun, Nastya Livadnova
Color: Anton Zimmerman
Stage Sound engineer: Gleb Ivanov
Sound Editor: Simona Markevich 
Actors: Katya Timofeeva,Nastya Livadnova
Lyrics: Nastya Livadnova
2nd Director: Valeria Gnatyuk-Romanovskaya,
Mary Sabalo Vladyshevskaya
2nd Camera: Evgenia Stvora 
Focus: Gosha Firsov 
1st AC: PUDOWITCH 
Administration: Valeria Gnatyuk-Romanovskaya,
Pavel Meshcheryakov
Titles: Nastya Livadnova
Titles DOP: Fedor Lisitsyn
Titles Sound Engineer: Kirill Khartoniuk
Backstage Photography: Edinlisa, Pavel Meshcheryakov
Special thanks for the bottle of water: Mikhail Zhigulskiy


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© All rights reserved Maxim Pechersky, Moscow, Russia
director

directing the film The Year of The White Moon,
containing a chronicle of telephone conversations
between a superstitious mother
living in the province
and her homosexual son who moved to the capital;
a tragicomedy about a conversation between two closest people who
just can't hear each other

Director and Editor: Maxim Pechersky
DOP: Liza Popova
Second camera unit: Genrich Ignatov
Talent: Sneg
Composer: Valeriy Melekhin
Administrator: Alexander Burenkov
Costume designer: Polina Eremina
Translator: Michail Zacharov
Illustrator: Katia Khassine
Graphic designers: Andrey Gerasimov, Daria Makarova
Special thanks to Olesya Rudyka

Screenings:
Oberhausen International Short Film Festival
Scheffield Doc
documentART
Image Forum Film Festival Tokyo
Moscow International Experimental Film Festival
shnit
Spirit of Fire Film Festival
Side by Side International LGBTQ+ Film festival
Strelka Film Festival
KARO Art
Landscapes Short Film Festival  


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© All rights reserved Ulyana Podkorytova, Moscow, Russia

director of photography

shooting the film
Tamotka by Ulyana Podkorytova
which mixed folklore traditions
of the Russian North
with a modern digital zeitgeist
into a fairy about the future
of nature and technologies

Director: Ulyana Podkorytova
DOP: Maxim Pechersky
Drone operator: Igor Frolov
Producer: Elena Martynenko
Actors: Ekaterina Zorina, Elena Ovodova,
Ulyana Podkorytova
Sound: Alexey Sysoev
Voice over: Masha Dugina
Costumes: Anna Zlotko, Elena Kostryukova, Dilya Bainazarova
Make up artist: Sasha Kotenkova
Photographers: Pavel Smirnov, Vanya Lyagachev
CG: Vladimir Mogilevsky

Curated by Olga Tsvetkova, Maria Kramar,
Elena Yichnikova, Andrey Parshikov

Commissioned by V-A-C Foundation

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© All rights reserved Maxim Pechersky, Moscow, Russia
director

directing the film
What Kind of Boy Are You,
observing different
types of masculinity

that coexist in a modern Russian context