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FLASHES OF LIGHT

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  • year : 2022
  • country : Russia
  • timing : 40'
  • genre : documentary
  • producer : Yulia Kiseleva
  • production : Risk Film Studio

written by Yulia Kiseleva
produced by Olga Shaposhnikova
DoPs Sergey Petriga, Anna Ovanesova
music by Anna Sulla, Andrey Kuzmak
sound by Ekaterina Turaeva
editor Yulia Kiseleva
cast: Andrey Demchinsky Mikhail Lebedev, Anton Kuznetsov

Ten years ago, it was hard to imagine that a blind person could restore vision with the help of prosthetics. Our protagonist did. Gregory performed operations to insert an implant into the retina. After a long period of rehabilitation, he successfully use their new ‘bionic’ vision. Today, science is on the verge of another amazing technological breakthrough: an implant for the visual cortex of the brain is being tested, and is tested right before our very eyes. So far, testing is conducted on monkeys. The dramatic stories in the film alternate with scientific conversations about the device and the true meaning of vision.

  • Diorama International Film Festival (2022, India, New Delhi)
  • International Human Rights Film Festival "Stalker" (2022, Russia, Moscow)
  • Future.doc International Science Film Festival (2023, Russia, Perm)
  • 8 Women International Film Festival (2023, Russia, Moscow)
  • Arctic International Film Festival «Golden raven», Audience Award, medallion «Golden Raven» for the Best Short Film, Special Jury Prize (2023, Russia, Anadyr)
  • Russian Festival of Patriotic Cinema "Malaya Zemlya" (2023, Russia, Novorossiysk)
  • Gagarin.doc International Festival of Cinema, Science, and Contemporary Art (2023, Russia, Saratov)
  • All-Russian Film Festival "Ksto Cinema" , Best Documentary (2023, Russia, Kstovo)
  • Pune Short Film Festival (2023, India, Pune)
  • MasterDoc International Documentary Film Festival, Best Short Film, Audience Award (2023, Georgia, Tbilisi)
  • Volgograd Torch Russian Film Festival (2023, Russia, Volgograd)
  • SCINEMA International Science Film Festival (2023, Australia, Adelaide)
  • Festival of scientific and industrial cinema of Siberia "Kremniy", Prize in the nomination Best Short Popular Science Film (2023, Russia, Novosibirsk)
  • DokuBaku International Documentary Film Festival (2023, Azerbaijan, Baku)
  • International Film Festival of Popular Science and Educational Films "World of Knowledge" (2023, Russia, St. Petersburg)
  • Raw Science Film Festival (2023, USA, Los Angeles)
  • Russian Film Festival "Science and Inventions on the screen", Grand Prix (2023, Russia, Saratov)
  • Unknown Russia Documentary Film Festival (2024, Russia, Moscow)
  • Nika Award, Long list (2024, Russia, Moscow)


Director’s statement

Personally, I make sci-fi films to educate the audience and fight the myths in their heads. The film Flashes of Light is no exception: in addition to pure aesthetics, it has an educational component and talks about new technologies that allow the blind to return the ability to see with the help of ‘chips’ implanted in their heads.


ABOUT THE FILM DIRECTOR:

Yulia Kiseleva was born on 17.02.1982 in Asbest (Sverdlovsk region), Russia. Graduated from Ural Federal University as a journalist and The Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) as a film director. Member of the Union of Cinematographers of Russia and Russian Documentary Guild.


FILMOGRAPHY:

2022 - Flashes of Light, documentary
2022 - The Chip Inside Me, documentary
2021 - Robot, do I Love you?, documentary
2019 - Brain. Evolution, a documentary film
2017 - Brain. The Second Universe, documentary
2017 - BAKUROV, documentary
2016 - Deep Down 1080, documentary
2015 - Samovydvizhenka, documentary
2014 - The Childhood On The River Bank, documentary
2012 - Broad Embraces, documentary
2009 - In the Movement, documentary
2008 - Sunny Day, documentary
2007 - Far From London, documentary

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