- year : 2019
- country : Russia
- timing : 15:05'
- genre : documentary
- producer : Oksana Timchenko
written and produced by Oksana Timchenko
DoPs Oksana Timchenko, Nikolay Khrenov (Nick Goy)
editor Oksana Timchenko
Sometimes life can only be accepted through death denial.
A film about the therapeutic nature of creativity, exploring the extent to which film-making can be a psychotherapeutic practice.
Young people get to know each other on a film course, make a documentary about suicide together in search of an answer to the question why life is worth living, and fall in love with each other. Six months later, the guy commits suicide, and the girl tries to make him the protagonist of the film, editing from the periphery of the footage: the moments and phrases captured by the camera - by accident or as a joke.
- Beat Film Festival (2019, Russia, Moscow)
- Open Film Festival "Kinoshok" (2019, Russia, Anapa)
- Festival "Moscow Premiere" (2019, Russia, Moscow)
- Open Festival of Student and Debut Films "Saint Anna" (2020, Russia, Moscow)
- Film Festival "ZA!" (2020, Russia, Chelyabinsk)
- Chelkinofest International Short Film Festival, Best Debut (2020, Russia, Chelyabinsk)
- The Lift-Off Sessions (2020, United Kingdom)
- SHORT to the Point International Short Film Festival, Best Documentary (2020, Romania, Bucharest)
- Festival of New Russian Cinema "Gorky fest" (2020, Russia, Nizhny Novgorod)
- International Film and Television Festival "Taganay Muses", 1st degree Diploma In the category "Doing good" (2020, Russia, Zlatoust)
- Moscow Shorts International Short Film Festival (2020, Russia, Moscow)
- International Film Festival "Svoboda" (Freedom) (2020, Russia, Rostov-on-Don)
- Portobello Film Festival (2020, UK, London)
- International Film Festival "Lovers of art. Kinonasledie" (2020, Russia, St. Petersburg)
- International Festival of Student Films "PiterKit" (2020, Russia, St. Petersburg)
- Madurai International Documentary and Short Film Festival (2020, India, Madurai)
- International Short Film Festival "OKNO", Special Jury Prize (2020, Russia, Omsk)
- International open youth festival of television programs and films "Telemania", Diploma in the category "INDIVIDUAL" (2020, Russia, Moscow and St. Petersburg)
- Short Film Market Picks (2021, France, Clermont-Ferrand)
- Moscow Festival of Creativity for People with Mental Disabilities “Ariadne’s Thread” (2023, Russia, Moscow)
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR:
Oksana Timchenko was born on 04.12.1990 in Tyumen, Russia. In 2011 graduated from National Research University Higher School of Economics as a bachelor of philosophy, and then in 2013 received a master's degree in Philosophical anthropology. At the present moment works as an editor and producer at the Bang Bang Education Design School.
FILMOGRAPHY:
2019 - "Edit as if I disappeared", documentary / debut
