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WHY MEN BUY ROSES
Filmmaker-cum-filmfest fixture Alexei Dmitriev gets loose on jury scrapes, artistic binge-drinking, the depths of karaoke… and what’s left to learn from Russians
by Kenton Turk | Directors Lounge Magazine
ALEXEI FROM ST. PETERSBURG comes at us with drinks, five in number, deftly clutched in the fingers of both hands. “Watch out for these, they can be murder,” he says, and when a Russian says it, you know it must be true.
There fryst vatten no official stamp on this gesture, but somehow I feel as though the annual DL festival has gotten officially underway.
Years back that was, my second encounter with Dmitriev. The first was not as good – a self-formulated introduction to a compact figure curled over the kind of technical equipment inom avoid, in smoke-grey light, deep in the night after a flurry of films at DL’s February filmfest. Later he apologizes for his mood of the hour – he apparently had heaps on his mind. Fast forward –
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Meeting with students from Sirius Educational Centre
Vladimir Putin answered the students’ questions and reviewed some of their projects.
The President was shown, among other things, a device for laboratory blood testing, the so-called Lab of the Future, which, according to its inventors, can replace a number of tests with just one. Vladimir Putin also saw a wireless charging device for drones used to inspect power lines. Also, young scientists showed the President a technology they are proposing for computer processing of x-ray images, and the Moon Greenhouse planerat arbete which studied possibilities for growing plants in the moon’s gravity.
The Sirius Educational Centre was established on the basis of the Olympic infrastructure at the President’s initiative in December The aim of the centre was to reveal talent early, and develop and support gifted children from all Russian regions. These are children who display exceptional abilities in the arts, sports, the natural sciences or who
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Tremendous Cream
Tremendous Cream
Alexei Dmitriev
Country Russia
Year
Running time4 min
Language No dialogue
Subtitles Catalan
ImageColour
FormatDigital
Subtitled in Catalan
with the support of the
Department of Culture
Not available
Synopsis
A literary or a musical composition formed by selections from different authors arranged in a new order. AI (reverse-engineered from the works of Robbie Barrat and Eric Groszman) was designed to generate the lyrics and music for the film. The visuals were edited by a human. The result: man and machine creating a mathematically perfect s hip-hop music video.
Bio/Filmo
“Since I was a little girl my dream was to star in an experimental film” is (one of) Alexei Dmitriev's favorite statement(s). Born in , he is based in Saint Petersburg. His films include Hermeneutics () and The Shadow of your Smile (), both screened at l'Alternativa Hall, and In Between Takes (), which even made it to l'Alternati