24th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival
About Me
director: Anastasia Serdyuk
original title: Vizitka
country: Czech Republic
year: 2017
running time: 1 min.
synopsis
In this short film, animated natural objects express the artist’s inner world: an unending search for new ways to do projects, searching for hidden meanings, and overcoming the fear of experimentation. The film’s central motif is, however, synesthesia as experienced through the fusion of physical sensory perceptions.
biography
Anastasia Serdyuk (1995) creates photographs, installations, and moving images, in which she tries to define the boundaries between the artistic and material worlds, things, and sounds using objects, intangible phenomena, words, and thoughts.
more about film
| director: | Anastasia Serdyuk |
| producer: | Anastasia Serdyuk |
| photography: | Anastasia Serdyuk |
| editing: | Anastasia Serdyuk |
| sound: | Anastasia Serdyuk |
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section: Fascinations: Exprmntl.cz
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