Ihor Podolchak ( ua, Ігор Подольчак, pl, Ihor Podolczak; born April 9, 1962) is a Ukrainian

filmmaker Filmmaking (film production) is the process by which a motion picture is produced. Filmmaking involves a number of complex and discrete stages, starting with an initial story, idea, or commission. It then continues through screenwriting, castin ...

and

visual artist The visual arts are art forms such as painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, photography, video, filmmaking, design, crafts and architecture. Many artistic disciplines such as performing arts, conceptual art, and textile arts al ...

. He is a co-founder of the creative association

Masoch Fund The Masoch Fund is a Ukrainian art association founded in 1991 in Lviv by Roman Viktyuk, Ihor Podolchak and Ihor Dyurych. Its artistic practice is connected with the tradition of European Action painting, actionism and Nicolas Bourriaud’s “Rela ...

, participant of the

Ukrainian New Wave Ukrainian New Wave () — a set of creative directions that arose in Ukraine in the period from the late 1980s to the early 2000s in reaction to turbulent socio-political events of that time such as collapse of the USSR, perestroika, Declaratio ...

. Ihor Podolchak was named as one of the 10 most prominent Ukrainian filmmakersЮрій Володарський
''Рейтинг Forbes: 10 найвизначніших кінорежисерів України''

«Forbes Ukraine»
, July 23, 2014. Retrieved July 26, 2014 by Forbes Ukraine in 2014, member of Ukrainian Film Academy.

Biography

Podolchak was born in

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Ukrainian SSR The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic ( uk, Украї́нська Радя́нська Соціалісти́чна Респу́бліка, ; russian: Украи́нская Сове́тская Социалисти́ческая Респ ...

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(now

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). He graduated from Lviv Academy of Fine Arts (then Lviv State Institute of Applied and Decorative Arts) with distinction in 1984. From 1984 to 1985 he served in the

Soviet Border Troops The Soviet Border Troops (russian: Пограничные войска СССР, Pogranichnyye voyska SSSR) were the border guard of the Soviet Union, subordinated to the Soviet state security agency: first to the '' Cheka''/ OGPU, then to NK ...

on the Soviet-Polish border. From 1985 to 1986 he worked in the Art Fund of the Union of Artists of Ukraine. Since 1986 - a free artist and curator of contemporary art. Participant and laureate of numerous international exhibitions, organized and held a number of international exhibitions in Ukraine, Russia, USA, Norway. After establishing the

, together with Igor Durich, he actively conducted various artistic projects in Ukraine, in Russia, in Germany. Since 1997, he has been engaged in the integrated design of the visual-image component of political election campaignsЧивокуня, В
''Політтехнологи на виборах-2006: хто працював на Януковича, Ахметова, Тимошенко, Медведчука…''
sd.org.ua 12.05.2006 Retrieved August 30, 2013 in Ukraine and Russia. Since 2006, he writes scripts, shoots and produces movies: *

Las Meninas ''Las Meninas'' (; ) is a 1656 painting in the Museo del Prado in Madrid, by Diego Velázquez, the leading artist of the Spanish Golden Age. It has become one of the most widely analyzed works in Western painting, due to the way its complex an ...

- 2008, full length, Ukraine *

Delirium Delirium (also known as acute confusional state) is an organically caused decline from a previous baseline of mental function that develops over a short period of time, typically hours to days. Delirium is a syndrome encompassing disturbances ...

- 2013, full length, Ukraine, Czech Republic *

Merry-Go-Round A carousel or carrousel (mainly North American English), merry-go-round ( international), roundabout (British English), or hurdy-gurdy (an old term in Australian English, in SA) is a type of amusement ride consisting of a rotating circular ...

- 2017, short length, Ukraine, Poland

Visual arts

Podolchak works in different genres of fine art -

painting Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and a ...

prints In molecular biology, the PRINTS database is a collection of so-called "fingerprints": it provides both a detailed annotation resource for protein families, and a diagnostic tool for newly determined sequences. A fingerprint is a group of conserved ...

photography Photography is the art, application, and practice of creating durable images by recording light, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film. It is emplo ...

video art Video art is an art form which relies on using video technology as a visual and audio medium. Video art emerged during the late 1960s as new consumer video technology such as video tape recorders became available outside corporate broadcasting ...

and art actions. At the beginning of his career, the graphics prevailed, and from the mid-1990s makes art actions and

performance A performance is an act of staging or presenting a play, concert, or other form of entertainment. It is also defined as the action or process of carrying out or accomplishing an action, task, or function. Management science In the work place ...

s, from the late 1990s video art. In the center of Podolchak's creativity, is a human bodyГуцул, E. ''Творили два товарища… Ага''
«Зеркало недели»
№ 36 (205) 5 — 11 сентября 1998 in its various manifestations, relationships with other bodies, as well as in different stages of decomposition.Бриних, М. ''Трiумф пост-еротичного м'ясожерства, або труп гниє — мистецтво квiтне''
«Україна молода»
2000.06.15 In the artistic development of the theme of decomposition and decay there are only two types of matter, two definite formations of "flesh" - human and architectural. They are the receptacles of all sorts of energies, the connections of various

semiotic Semiotics (also called semiotic studies) is the systematic study of sign processes ( semiosis) and meaning making. Semiosis is any activity, conduct, or process that involves signs, where a sign is defined as anything that communicates something ...

codes - the most clearly demonstrated manifestations of regressive forces. The propensity to the metamorphoses of decomposition reveals and, in a special way, mythologizes the "corporeality" of these two organisms, and the inconstancy of the point of view on their relations in this state (fluctuations from

allegory As a literary device or artistic form, an allegory is a narrative or visual representation in which a character, place, or event can be interpreted to represent a hidden meaning with moral or political significance. Authors have used allegory t ...

thriller Thriller may refer to: * Thriller (genre), a broad genre of literature, film and television ** Thriller film, a film genre under the general thriller genre Comics * ''Thriller'' (DC Comics), a comic book series published 1983–84 by DC Comics i ...

), constantly improves the

iconography Iconography, as a branch of art history, studies the identification, description and interpretation of the content of images: the subjects depicted, the particular compositions and details used to do so, and other elements that are distinct fro ...

of Podolchak's aesthetics in general.Сидор-Гібелінда, О. ''Файні хлопці з Бандершадту.'' «Журнал Fine Art», #2, 2008 The artist's book '' Jacob Bohme'' was awarded as World's Best Book (Bronze Medal) by Stiftung Buchkunst Frankfurt am Main at

Frankfurt Book Fair The Frankfurt Book Fair (German: Frankfurter Buchmesse, FBM) is the world's largest trade fair for books, based on the number of publishing companies represented. It is considered to be the most important book fair in the world for internationa ...

. One of his 24 personal exhibitions was the first art exhibition ever to be held in space, at space station

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on January 25, 1993. Artworks of Podolchak can be found in 26 museums and public collections worldwide.

Cinema

Both Podolchak's films have common characteristic features: departure from

narrative A narrative, story, or tale is any account of a series of related events or experiences, whether nonfictional ( memoir, biography, news report, documentary, travelogue, etc.) or fictional ( fairy tale, fable, legend, thriller, novel, etc ...

anthropology Anthropology is the scientific study of humanity, concerned with human behavior, human biology, cultures, societies, and linguistics, in both the present and past, including past human species. Social anthropology studies patterns of be ...

of enclosed worlds, elaborated composition of frame, unusual shooting angles. The spaces of ''Las Meninas'' and ''Delirium'' are similarly dense, difficult for movement, tiresome both for the characters moving within them and the viewers watching them. This reflects the time of " the end of history" with its

somnambulism Sleepwalking, also known as somnambulism or noctambulism, is a phenomenon of combined sleep and wakefulness. It is classified as a sleep disorder belonging to the parasomnia family. It occurs during slow wave stage of sleep, in a state of lo ...

, impotence, morbidity and hopelessness.

''Las Meninas''

''Las Meninas'' is Podolchak's debut full-length film. He wrote, directed and produced it. The film had a world premiere at the

International Film Festival Rotterdam The International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) is an annual film festival held at the end of January in various locations in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Since its foundation in 1972, it has maintained a focus on independent and experimental f ...

in the competition program on January 25, 2008.Константинова, Катерина
''Український «натюрморт» вперше в Роттердамі''

«Дзеркало Тижня»
№ 3 (682) 26 січня — 1 лютого 2008. Retrieved November 3, 2009 Overall, it has participated in 27 international film festivals, including 10 competition programs.

''Delirium''

''Delirium'' is Podolchak's second full-length feature. Its script is based on the story ''Inductor'' by the Ukrainian writer and journalist Dmytro Belyanskyi. The film's production lasted during 2008–2010. For the first time fragments of the film were demonstrated in 2012 on the 45th

Karlovy Vary International Film Festival The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival ( cs, Mezinárodní filmový festival Karlovy Vary) is a film festival held annually in July in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic. The Karlovy Vary Festival is one of the oldest in the world and has becom ...

in the program ''Films in production. New full-length films from Central and Eastern Europe''. After the prerelease screenings, Ukrainian film critics compared the second film of Podolchak to the works of

Alain Robbe-Grillet Alain Robbe-Grillet (; 18 August 1922 – 18 February 2008) was a French writer and filmmaker. He was one of the figures most associated with the '' Nouveau Roman'' (new novel) trend of the 1960s, along with Nathalie Sarraute, Michel Butor and ...

Pedro Costa Pedro Costa (born 30 December 1958) is a Portuguese film director. He is best known for his sequence of films set in Lisbon, which focuses on the lives of the impoverished residents of a slum in the Fontainhas neighbourhood. Biography After com ...

and

Nikos Nikolaidis Nikos Georgiou Nikolaidis ( el, Νίκος Γεωργίου Νικολαΐδης; 25 October 1939 – 5 September 2007) was a Greek film director, screenwriter, film producer, writer, theatre director, assistant director, record producer, televi ...

. Position 5 in ''Top-10 Ukrainian films of 2012'' by «Афіша@Mail.Ru».Топ-10 украинских фильмов 2012 года
Retrieved December 27, 2012

''Merry-Go-Round''

The first short length film (2017. Ukraine, Poland. 5 min). It was premiered at

Revelation Perth International Film Festival Revelation Perth International Film Festival began in 1997. Founded by Richard Sowada to showcase a large range of independent feature films, documentaries, short films, and experimental works, it runs every July in Perth, Western Australia and ...

on July 9, 2017 and was nominated for the Best Ukrainian Short Film at

Odesa International Film Festival The Odesa International Film Festival ( uk, Оде́ський міжнаро́дний кінофестива́ль) is an annual film festival held in the middle of July in Odesa. Since 2016 the festival program has consisted of three parts: ...

Selected prizes and nominations

Prizes: * 2013 «First Prize», Baghdad International Film Festival,

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* 1995 «Triennaleprize», 11th Norway International Print Triennial,

Fredrikstad Fredrikstad (; previously ''Frederiksstad''; literally "Fredrik's Town") is a city and municipality in Viken county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the city of Fredrikstad. The city of Fredrikstad was founded in ...

* 1994 « Walter Tiemann Preis», Verein zur Förderung von Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig e.V. an der Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in

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* 1990 «Latvian Artist Union Prize», Triennial of miniature graphic art,

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* 1990 «1st Award for graphics», 5th Annual International Art Exhibition, Marietta, USA * 1989 «Diploma», International Biennial of Art ''Impreza'',

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, Ukraine * 1988 «Prix Ex Aequo», 12th International Print Biennial, Cracow * 1987 «Honorable Medal»,Miejska Galeria Sztuki
. Wyroznieni. Retrieved November 5, 2009 Small Graphic Forms,

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Nominations: * 2017 «Best Ukrainian short film»,

* 2013 «National Prize»,

* 2013 «Best Director» Director's Week Competition, Fantasporto, Oporto International Film Festival,

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* 2009 «Prize»,

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Film Festival * 2008 «Tiger», 37th

* 2008 «Prize

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», 7th Transilvania International Film Festival,

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* 2008 «Prize»,ArtFilm International Film Festival Trencianske Teplice-Trencin. Bratislava: Art Film 2008, p.5
OCLC 450932929
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Sources

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Last cantata. Ihor Podolchak : exhibition catalogue 11–28.07.2018
'. Kyiv : Golden Section, 2018. 38 p. *''100 Імен. Сучасне мистецтво України періоду Незалежності.'' (''100 names. Contemporary Ukrainian Art from the Independence Time.'') Київ: Видавництво «Мысль», 2008 * Bang-Heun C. ''Igor Podolchak.'' Catalog. Seoul: Gaain Gallery, 1992 * Böhme Jakob; Podolczak Igor; Tomkowski Jan. Artist's Book. Lodz: Correspondance des Arts II, 1993. * Callaghan B. ''Fifteen Years in Exile.'' Toronto: Exile Editions, 1992 * Dyurych I,; Podolchak, I
''Art in Space''
. Special Edition for São Paulo Biennial. Kyiv: Masoch Fund, 1994 * Dyurych, I.; Podolchak, Ihor
''Последний еврейский погром'' (''The Last Jewish Pogrom'').
Kyiv: Masoch Fund, 1995 * Dyurych, Ihor; Podolchak, I.; Тistol, О. ''Igor Podolchak : immoral-immortal.'' Lviv: Masoch Fund, 1999. * Ewins, R.; Colless E. ''Igor Podolchak. Ukrainian Printmaker.'' Catalog. Hobart: University of Tasmania, 1991 * Flashback. Українське медіа-мистецтво 1990-х. Ukrainian media art of the 1990s. Catalog. Curators: Oleksandr Solovyov, Solomiya Savchuk. Київ: ДП НКММК Мистецький Арсенал, 2018. — 180 p. , Pages 16, 24, 40-41, 117 * Fur, G. ''Dictionnaire du BDSM.'' Paris: La Musardine, 2016, pp. 3, 108, 153, 274. , * ''Grenzgänger: acht Künstler aus der Ukraine.'' Linz: Büro für Kulturelle Auslandsbeziehungen des Landes Oberösterreich, 1994. * Matuszak, G.; Wozniak, Taras. ''Igor Podolchak''. Lodz: Biuro Wystaw artystycznych, 1988 * Mikhaylovska O.; Podolchak, I.; Taranenko,
''Corpus delicti : post-erotic art photography.''
Prague: Masoch Fund, 1998. * Pethő, Ágnes. ''The Cinema of Sensations''. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015, pp. 155–182, , * Pomiędzy. Polonistyczno-Ukrainoznawcze Studia Naukowe. Warsaw: University of Warsaw, Nr 1 (2015), pp. 137–14
''Ciało cierpiące jako widowisko w malarstwie Igora Podolczaka i Wasylija Cagolowa / Marta Zambrzycka''ISSN 2543-9227
* Raine, C.; Podolczak, Igor. ''Gilgamesh.'' Lodz, Poland : Book Art Museum, 1995. * Rosiak, M. ''Igor Podolczak. Grafika.'' Catalog. Poznan: Galeria'72, 1989 * Rudel, J. ''Apocalypses: Rencontres Du Manege Royal.''. La Garenne-Colombes: Editions de l'Espace européen, 1991 * Voznyak, T. ''Ihor Podolchak''. Catalog. Lviv: Ukrainian Independent Center of Contemporary Art, 1991. * Лук'янець В., Носко К. ''Де кураторство''. (''Where is the curatorial''). — Х.: IST Publishing. 2017. — 256 p. Pages 40–47. * ''Mистецька мапа України: Львів — живопис, графіка, скульптура''. (''Art Map of Ukraine: Lviv - painting, prints, sculpture.'') Kyiv: I︠U︡velir-pres, 2008.

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