Daniil Zinchenko Movies, TV Shows, and Filmography
Daniil Zinchenko
Directing
Biography
Born in 1984 in Tyumen. He debuted in cinematography as an actor in Yevgeny Yufit's films «The Wooden Room» (1995) and «Silver Heads» (1999). Later he graduated from the Rodchenko Art School, Moscow. Zinchenko is a director of several feature films, including: «50» (together with Tikhon Pendyurin; 2018); «Russia as A Dream» (together with Andrey Silvestrov; 2016); and «Elixir» (2015). Participant of 16th Venice Architectural Biennale (Russian Pavilion; 2018); goEast Festival, Wiesbaden (2017); 66th Berlin International Film Festival (2016); and Moscow International Film Festival (2012, 2014). In 2019 he received Spirit of Fire Film Festival Award in the category Short Film for the film «Manifest» (together with Tikhon Pendyurin; 2019).
Filmography Movies
Acting
Silver Heads
The necrorealist science fiction plot involves a team of scientists attempting to cross a human being with a tree, and a special unit dispatched to hunt down the zombie-like mutants created in a previous, failed experiment
America
Would it be correct to suggest that none of it happened?
Mad Mimes
An anthropological study of a cargo cult in a fictitious self-marginalized commune, which existed next to the Moscow Ring Road - a highway that marks the boundaries of the Russian capital - and survived mainly on roadside trash. Although the road provided for their basic needs, the existence of the commune was extremely precarious and highly dependent on the roadway's fluctuations. This dependency led them to develop a cargo cult of the road.
We Are Your Grandfather
A family of British descent settled in the Russian countryside is investigating its grandfather's mysterious death. One small step for men, women, children, dogs, and pigs - one giant leap for humanity.
Long Encounters Quick Farewells
A group of artists set out on a quest of organising their own biennale in Istanbul.
The Way of Samodelkin
A mystical detective story set in the realm of Moscow art scene. Psychedelic trip through different places, characters and strategies in the search for the Author, covering mythology of Moscow art from the period of 1980-2010. The movie is based on the 'Inspection Medical Hermeneutics' group's text of the same name and on the historical research performed by the authors of the film. Production was an experiment in collective film making experience.
Manifesto
Two friends, walking along Losiny Island in Moscow, found a camera...
Production
50
Sergey "Pakhom" Pakhomov, an actor, psychic and cultural figure, let's say, of a broad profile, celebrated his 50th anniversary by making a pilgrimage from the beginning to the end of Tverskaya Street and back 50 times.
Why Dreams
Composer Alexander Knaifel’s work A Silly Horse consists of 15 stories for a singer and piano. Each story has its title, and these titles were used to find newsreel clips from the 20th century, which have nothing in common except that they are archive material. The music and the image magically combine to create the story of a boy who hears and sees only the words “Why dreams”, which gave this film its name.
Diary of a Philosopher Dog
A poetic video essay based on a novel by russian "metaphysical realism" writer Yuri Mamleev. Infrared shooting and digital voice were used for production of the film.
Elixir
A modern fairy tale with scientists, partisans, cosmonauts, officials, and the Motherland. The scientist and his assistant are collecting the ingredients for an elixir that can resurrect dead people to life. At the same time, officials are looking for the carpenter who has a power to transmute water into oil.
Russia as a dream
In the small town of Kansk, the Krasnoyarsk Territory many years in a row there is an international festival of short experimental films, which has a strong reputation throughout the world. "Russia as a dream" is an international project, shot by a team of authors and united directors, artists, poets. Each of the guests of the 14th International Kan Video Festival held in 2015 was invited to participate in the creation of a general film, the theme of which was the relationship of man and landscape, civilization and nature, reality and sleep.
Russia as a dream
In the small town of Kansk, the Krasnoyarsk Territory many years in a row there is an international festival of short experimental films, which has a strong reputation throughout the world. "Russia as a dream" is an international project, shot by a team of authors and united directors, artists, poets. Each of the guests of the 14th International Kan Video Festival held in 2015 was invited to participate in the creation of a general film, the theme of which was the relationship of man and landscape, civilization and nature, reality and sleep.
America
Would it be correct to suggest that none of it happened?
Elixir
A modern fairy tale with scientists, partisans, cosmonauts, officials, and the Motherland. The scientist and his assistant are collecting the ingredients for an elixir that can resurrect dead people to life. At the same time, officials are looking for the carpenter who has a power to transmute water into oil.
Elixir
A modern fairy tale with scientists, partisans, cosmonauts, officials, and the Motherland. The scientist and his assistant are collecting the ingredients for an elixir that can resurrect dead people to life. At the same time, officials are looking for the carpenter who has a power to transmute water into oil.
Mad Mimes
An anthropological study of a cargo cult in a fictitious self-marginalized commune, which existed next to the Moscow Ring Road - a highway that marks the boundaries of the Russian capital - and survived mainly on roadside trash. Although the road provided for their basic needs, the existence of the commune was extremely precarious and highly dependent on the roadway's fluctuations. This dependency led them to develop a cargo cult of the road.
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