“I knew it would start, this war. I saw what they did in Chechnya and Transnistria. Unfortunately, I was waiting for her. My weapon is my camera.”
The trailer for the upcoming film about the photographer has appeared documentarian Oleksandr Glyadyelov, who has been capturing reality on camera for three decades. A large part of his work is occupied by wars: Transnistria, Chechnya, Nagorno-Karabakh, Ukraine in 2014 and 2022, writes Moviegram.
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In Donbas 8 years ago I photographed fighters near Ilovaisk. He was wounded in Transnistria.
His pictures are black and white. War permeates most of Glyadyelov's works, he captures the soldiers a moment before the battle and does not leave the viewer with the feeling of immersion in something sublime and disturbing, such as cinema.
Frequent characters in the artist's photographs are children. Some of them have already grown up and tell the story of the picture, as they perceived it in childhood.
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Homeless children of the nineties, refugees in hot spots, the consequences of “arrivals” in Ukrainian cities – what the photographer did not miss.
My weapon is my camera
“It always seems to a person that tomorrow nothing bad will happen. It will happen the day after tomorrow, but not tomorrow. Apparently, I was not the only one who had such feelings, I internally pushed this boundary. But it hung in in the air,” Glyadyelov shares about the premonition of war.
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“I knew that it would start, this war,” says the artist. “I saw what they did in Chechnya and Transnistria. Unfortunately, I was waiting for her. My weapon is my camera. I have to show the world what is happening in Ukraine.”
The film “Glyadelov” will be black and white, just like the pictures taken by the photographer. It is expected to begin its festival history at the beginning of 2023.
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The film will be directed by Ksenia Kravtsova. She, together with Inokentiy Vyrov, is the author of the script. Edited by Dmytro Chaika. Director of photography, Vladyslav Nechiporenko.
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