Full Name Ihor Podolchak Name Ihor Podolchak Role Filmmaker | Years active 1984 – present Movies Delirium, Las Meninas | |
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Spouse Tamara Podolchak (m. 1984) Alma mater The Lviv National Academy of Arts Similar People Dean Karr, Alexander Shchetynsky, Vitaliy Linetskiy | ||
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Ihor Podolchak (Ukrainian: Ігор Подольчак, Polish: Igor Podolczak) (born April 9, 1962) is a Ukrainian filmmaker and visual artist. He is a co-founder of the creative association Masoch Fund.
Contents
- Delirium director ihor podolchak trailer 1 eng
- LasMeninas
- Early life
- Visual arts
- Cinema
- Las Meninas
- Delirium
- Merry Go Round
- Selected prizes and nominations
- References
Ihor Podolchak was voted as one of the 10 most prominent Ukrainian filmmakers by Forbes Ukraine in 2014, member of Ukrainian Film Academy.
LasMeninas
Early life
Podolchak was born in Lviv, Ukrainian SSR, USSR (now Ukraine). He graduated from Lviv Academy of Fine Arts (then Lviv State Institute of Applied and Decorative Arts) with distinction in 1984. From 1984 to 1985 he served in the Soviet Border Troops on the Soviet-Polish border.
Visual arts
The artist's book Jacob Bohme was awarded as World's Best Book (Bronze Medal) by Stiftung Buchkunst Frankfurt am Main at Frankfurt Book Fair. One of his 24 personal exhibitions was the first art exhibition ever to be held in space, at space station Mir on January 25, 1993. Artworks of Podolchak can be found in 26 museums and public collections worldwide.
Cinema
Both films of Podolchak have common characteristic features: departure from narrative, anthropology of enclosed worlds, elaborated composition of frame, unusual shooting angles. The spaces of Las Meninas and Delirium are similarly dense, difficult for movement, tiresome both for the characters moving within them and the viewers watching them. This reflects the time of “the end of history” with its somnambulism, impotence, morbidity and hopelessness.
Las Meninas
Las Meninas is Podolchak's debut full-length film. He wrote, directed and produced it. The film had a world premiere at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in the competition program on January 25, 2008. Overall, it has participated in 27 international film festivals, including 10 competition programs.
Delirium
Delirium is Podolchak's second full-length feature. Its script is based on the story Inductor by the Ukrainian writer and journalist Dmytro Belyanskyi. The film’s production lasted during 2008–2010. For the first time fragments of the film were demonstrated in 2012 on the 45th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in the program Films in production. New full-length films from Central and Eastern Europe. After the prerelease screenings, Ukrainian film critics compared the second film of Podolchak to the works of Alain Robbe-Grillet, Pedro Costa and Nikos Nikolaidis.
Position 5 in Top-10 Ukrainian films of 2012 by «Афіша@Mail.Ru».
Merry-Go-Round
The first short length film (2017. Ukraine, Poland. 5 min). It was premiered at Revelation Perth International Film Festival on July 9, 2017 and was nominated for the Best Ukrainian Short Film at Odesa International Film Festival.
Selected prizes and nominations
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