Movies: Vadim Kostrov

Shot on Mini DV and mostly in Paris, Towards the Light is a personal diary of exile. Through images of light, landscapes and memory, the film captures a year (2023) of reflective solitude in exile for Russian filmmaker Vadim Kostrov and his wife, art...

Shifting subtly between figuration and abstraction, with Rothko-esque golds and reds, the hypnotic En Traversée by prolific and steadfastly DIY filmmaker Vadim Kostrov evokes the poetry of dislocation by way of a world in motion....

The sea, the cliffs, the boats. A couple of Russian friends come to visit the filmmaker in exile in France. Glimpsed in the distance or invading the screen – the shimmer of the waves is everywhere....

Errol and Sasha, two young women in their twenties, drift through their lives and the city. A study by fragments of existences waiting to happen....

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An Ural city of Nizhniy Tagil. Summer is over and a ten years old Vadim is moving to a new district and attends a new school. The last warm days of September. Vadim is making his way through the fading rays of the autumn sun....

Boys — A short story — about the guys who stay away from the art underground, they just work at the local fast food cafe but in their free time, work with cars in the garage and making rap. But they have something to say at the beginning of 2020th. W...

Shots of forgotten songs, rural and urban landscapes of the hinterland. Young people.....

In Glimmering, Vadim Kostrov captures fleeting afternoon light in his backyard. Shot on miniDV and without sound, the film is a silent meditation on impermanence, where glimmers on leaves, fabric, and reflections become a visual poem on time, light, ...

The film takes us to Nizhny Tagil in September of 2021. Gosha Gordienko, the front man of the rock band Lazy Comet, and Matthew Bedin came together to compose the song Ya Videl for the new album of the group, which wasn’t finished. The film is a memo...

A reflection on freedom, filmed at the end of summer in one of the closed military camps, the full name of which is "ZATO Svobodny". Residents of Svobodny of different ages answer questions about what is freedom? Are they free? And is "Svobodny" Free...

On December 31, 2017, there were only a few hours left before the new year, and a friend of mine came to celebrate the new year with one "family" in the very center of the capital.. this film, shot spontaneously, sums up the results of 2017, informin...

Middle Ural, winter. A time of silence and hibernation. The bright future is anticipated yet covered with a thick layer of snow, hidden by the blizzard. Spring and summer lie somewhere very far, beyond the obliterating winter....

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The movie was shot at the junction of documentary and fiction films. The film takes the viewer into the late Ural summer of 2019 and immerses us in the real life of today's youth, with all its uncertainty, fragility, pain, despair and aspirations....

Out swimming with friends....

Parisian interplay of light and water colliding with the unique textures of MiniDV...

Few days, two concerts in the one night in the heart of the Moscow. Film-concert about Moscow's trip of the Nizniy Tagil's underground rock-group «lazy comet» in the end of the winter 2020th. The closing part of trilogy , which have started with «Nar...

A bleak look into Ural's art underground after the closure of the Narodnaya gallery, probing into the position these artists hold outside the ambit of institutions and community....

Shot in late August 2024 in Warsaw, Poland; Waning articulates the very essence of fleeting moments of Vadim Kostrov’s life captured in fading late summer light. By using the dispositif of miniDV, the film preserves glimpses of beauty and melancholy ...