ILIAZD, a film by STANISLAV DOROCHENKOV

90 minutes / French, Russian, Zaoum / 2021

Dadaist poet, Russian and cosmopolitan
artist, creator and publisher of some of the
most beautiful books of the 20th century, Ilia
Zdanevitch, aka Iliazd, is a little-known but major
figure of modern art. Almost half a century after
his death, Ilia, a young Russian agitator, sets out
on his trail. Driven by an eccentric energy and
a taste for changes of speed and register, in the
wake of Ilia, Stanislav Doroshenkov composes
an eccentrically disproportionate portrait of
their model. From his native Georgia to Marseille,
where his archives are kept, each point invents
a singular method through which to reactivate
Iliazd’s thoughts and life. Artist friends resurface,
phrases populate images, film becomes book,
patiently fabricated through the rediscovered
motions of the lithographer.


Original Version : Invented Language, French, Russian.
Subtitles : French. Russian. English
Script : Stanislav Dorochenkov, Marguerite Vappereau.
Photography : Nikita Pavlav, Daniil Fomichev.
Editing : Maria Golub, Nicolas Gerber.
Colorgrading: Daniil Fomichev
Music : Nicolas Gerber, Arthur Moulton, Christian Gerber.
Sound : Christian Gerber, Nicolas Gerber.
Trailer : Giulia Großmann
Technic assistance : Egor Kolinechenko

Casting : Stanislav Dorochenkov, Jeanne Casilas, Vava Dudu, Ekaterina Gavrilova, Olga Dudina.


https://fidmarseille.org/en/film/illazd/

ILIAZD

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