Video


“HUMANITY” – Director: A. Nikolaev, script: K. Tucholsky, 10 min, Dushanbe, Tajikistan, 2014

The movie “HUMANITY” was created on the basis of minor works – essays by the German author Kurt Tucholsky, established in 1931 in Germany. The complexity of the ongoing political developments at the time in the world, the emergence and establishment of fascism and other totalitarian systems. The ambiguity of the processes occurring in the polar and antagonistic state systems, in this work took the form of works by grade 5 student of the school on the subject “Man.” That in itself has simplified the style of the conversation on the complex, “adult” topics. But at the same time not deprived of the scale of the conversation and the importance for each person. Children’s style, of course, determines the irony, with which to build the narrative. Organic “childishness” and naivety is a common style of the film – a silent movie with the frames of those years, characteristic titles, and music, in chronological order identify us by that time. The result is a childish, naive talk about “home”. A special feature of this work is political detachment, raised “above” the various state systems, thereby demonstrating and claiming some kind of universal objectivity. And, of course, the hidden humor and irony. This is a civil position and responsibility of the author, so relevant and now. In our time, when many events are obvious and repeatedly interpreted in history by far, time to reflect and say to yourself, and living near “neighbor” of the meaninglessness and the futility of any ambitions of various sizes, and they are worthy of humor.


«Prayer» video, 6 min, 2006

On the basis of this film lays the known medieval European parable about Saint Francis, the monk who says his prayers to birds.

Vivid conception of human soul. Naked before the God and the nature the person learns himself in the pray. Words of the pray is a noise of a wind and peals of water. And whether the pray is heard?


«Want to be in Hollywood» video, 5 min, 2004

Project “Want to be in Hollywood” presents real ordinary person and his common life. What distinguishes him from the simple inhabitant? He has a dream – fetch up at Hollywood and become an actor! He make a clips, photo and send it to the different Hollywood companies. But every time he refused…

In this video art presents his documents:  biography (with the uncompleted director’s education at local theatre, course of film critics), a work-record card and photos.

He had a dream to get to America while he was served in the Soviet Army in Cuba (he played on the Cuban flag back ground.  acts on video on a background of the Cuban flag). Ironic situation of all post-Soviet space.

But, how know… May be everything will turn out?


«It time to collect the stone» video, 6,2 min, 2010

The Film dedicated to memories fallen in civil conflict.  Time to spread the stone – time to collect the stone.


«www.freeworld» video, 6 min, 2006

A young man in search of non-existent links in the global network.

His futile attempts, the page does not exist.
But there is another reality – a little one on the screen, you can feel like a hero.
Where the border: the virtuality – reality in the modern world…


«O sole mio» video, 4 min, 2007

The Problems to migration in european country. The World is divided on two camps – a legal people and on not legal. As they exist in one space?


«lift» video, 5,3 min, 2003

The person that enters the Elevator, presses the button on “his” floor. Doors opened, and as a result he had nowhere, and maybe there is no need to out – flicker the floors of different situations. The symbol of the difficulty, sometimes the impossibility of choice in the modern world. In the end there is a door ajar… Where the hero will be released?