- year : 2017
- country : Russia, Latvia
- timing : 70:51'
- genre : documentary
- producer : Darya Khrenova
written by Darya Khrenova
produced by Vladislav Ketkovich, Daria Khrenova, Guntis Trekteris, Alexandra Zhukova
DoPs Alexandra Ivanova, Daria Khrenova, Maxim Drozdov
sound by Ivan Gusakov
editor Armands Zacs, Darya Khrenova
production company: Ethnofund, Ego Media
Petr Pavlensky is currently the most radical artist in Russia, his bloody and challenging performances are mutilating his own body – he saws up his lips, naked wraps himself in barbed wire by the prosecutor’s office, nails his genitalia in the Red Square – he takes down the border between life and art.
International Documentary Film Festival "Artdocfest", Special Jury Mention (2017, Russia, Latvia)
Kharkiv MeetDocs (2017, Ukraine, Kharkov)
The Nominee of the Cinema Critics' Award "White Elephant" (2017, Russia, Moscow)
Ad Hoc: Inconvenient Films (2017, Lithuania, Vilnius)
East Silver Market (2017, Czech Republic, Jihlava)
Festival of Russian Films "Sputnik Above Poland", Special Documentary Jury Prize (2017, Poland, Warsaw)
Gdansk DocFilm Festival (2018, Poland, Gdansk)
Pärnu International Documentary and Anthropology Film Festival (2018, Estonia, Parnu)
Festival Internacional de Cine de los Derechos Humanos (2018, Bolivia, Sucre)
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR:
Darya Khrenova was born on 17.07.1979 In Moscow. Graduated from The Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) as a film director. Worked on TV channel "Culture" as a chief-editor, author, director of weekly TV programs («Apocrypha», «Documentary camera», «Magic of the cinema»), worked on TV channels TVC, REN TV, Channel 1. Author of bestseller (avto-fiction book), short stories, critical essays, reviews.
FILMOGRAPHY:
2017 - "Pavlensky. Life Naked", documentary
2015 - "The last campaign of Baron", documentary
2015 - "Who Will Be My Husband?", documentary
2014 - "The Main Triumph of the Life", documentary
2013 - "The Magic Mountain of Vincenzo Bianchi", documentary