Merry-Go-Round (2017, Ukraine, Poland. 5 min.) – a short film by

Ukrainian film Ukrainian cinema comprises the art of film and creative movies made within the nation of Ukraine and also by Ukrainian film makers abroad. Despite a history of important and successful productions, the industry has often been characterized ...

director

Ihor Podolchak Ihor Podolchak ( ua, Ігор Подольчак, pl, Ihor Podolczak; born April 9, 1962) is a Ukrainian filmmaker and visual artist. He is a co-founder of the creative association Masoch Fund, participant of the Ukrainian New Wave. Ihor Podol ...

, produced in 2017. Producers of the film, along with Igor Podolchak were Ihor Dyurych, Liliya Mlynarych, Max Asadchiy, Serhiy Nedzelskyy. Director of photography –

Serhiy Mykhalchuk Serhiy Mykhalchuk ( uk, Сергій Михальчук; born 13 July 1972, in Lutsk) is a Ukrainian cinematographer. He graduated in 1994 from the Kyiv Theater Institute of Karpenko-Karyj. In addition to film work, Mykhalchuk has also produced ...

, art director Svitlana Makarenko. Music for the film was created by Oleksandr Shchetynsky. The world premiere of the film took place on July 9, 2017, in Australia in the program of the IFF in Perth "Revelation". The film was nominated for the National Film Award at the

Odesa International Film Festival The Odesa International Film Festival ( uk, Оде́ський міжнаро́дний кінофестива́ль) is an annual film festival held in the middle of July in Odesa. Since 2016 the festival program has consisted of three parts: ...

About the director

Among the contemporary artists who became filmmakers,

is a figure odious. Unlike

Matthew Barney Matthew Barney (born March 25, 1967) is an American contemporary artist and film director who works in the fields of sculpture, film, photography and drawing. His works explore connections among geography, biology, geology and mythology as well ...

and

Marina Abramović Marina Abramović ( sr-Cyrl, Марина Абрамовић, ; born November 30, 1946) is a Serbian conceptual and performance artist. Her work explores body art, endurance art, feminist art, the relationship between the performer and aud ...

he does not balance on the verge of conceptual

video art Video art is an art form which relies on using video technology as a visual and audio medium. Video art emerged during the late 1960s as new consumer video technology such as video tape recorders became available outside corporate broadcasting. ...

but he is engaged in cinematography in its pure form.Шпилюк, Алик
''Игорь Подольчак покоряет голландские высоты''«Коммерсант Украина»
№ 8 от January 23, 2008. Retrieved November 3, 2009. At the same time, Podolchak's films are much closer to experimental cinema than those films that are shot by other contemporary artists.

Synopsys

Somnambulistic circus Ribera&Velazquez welcomes everyone to the show "Merry-Go-Round", where shadows, that escaped the Platonic cave, turn the carousel in the foggy catacombs.

Specifications

The film was shot in Betacam SP,

PAL Phase Alternating Line (PAL) is a colour encoding system for analogue television. It was one of three major analogue colour television standards, the others being NTSC and SECAM. In most countries it was broadcast at 625 lines, 50 fields (25 ...

format. Projection Format: DCP. Sound: Stereo. Aspect Ratio: 16: 9 (HD), 1.85: 1 (2K DCP Flat).

Participation in festivals

* 2017 - Revelation.

Perth Perth is the list of Australian capital cities, capital and largest city of the Australian states and territories of Australia, state of Western Australia. It is the list of cities in Australia by population, fourth most populous city in Aust ...

International Film Festival. Perth, Australia. * 2017 -

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International Film Festival. Australia. * 2017 -

Braunschweig Braunschweig () or Brunswick ( , from Low German ''Brunswiek'' , Braunschweig dialect: ''Bronswiek'') is a city in Lower Saxony, Germany, north of the Harz Mountains at the farthest navigable point of the river Oker, which connects it to the ...

International Film Festival.

, Germany. * 2018 - Fantasporto – Oporto International Film Festival. Porto, Portugal. * 2018 - Experimental Video Show. The Exchange Gallery. Bloomsburg, PA, USA. * 2018 - North Bellarine Film Festival, Australia. * 2018 - Scandinavian International Film Festival. Helsinki, Finland. * 2019 - Spectral Film Festival. Stevens Point, USA. * 2019 - Paris European Film Festival "L'Europe autour de l'Europe". France; * 2019 - Festival ECRA. Ріо-де-Жанейро, Бразилія; * 2019 - L’Age d’Or International Arthouse Film Festival. Kolcata, India; * 2019 - Cineautopsia v.5. Bogotá Experimental Film Festival. Colombia; * 2019 - The Unseen Festival. Denver USA; * 2019 - STRANGLOSCOPE - Mostra Internacional de Áudio, Vídeo, Filme. Brazyl; * 2019 - Firenze FilmCorti Festival. Italy.

Nominations

* Prix Sauvage Corto. Paris European Film Festival L'Europe autour de l'Europe. France * The best Ukrainian short film. Odesa International Film Festival. * Avant-guarde & Experimental Special Award. Skepto International Film Festival. Cagliari, Italy. * Best Experimental Film. Lecce Film Festival. Italy. Lecce Film Festival
. Retrieved December 2, 2018

External links

''Merry-Go-Round''
on

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References

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