Pure Art

Director
Year
Genre
Countries
Length
Original language
Subtitles

Script
DoP
Editor
Production


Maksim Shved
2019
documentary
Belarus, Poland
50 min.
Belarusian, Russian, Polish
English

Maksim Shved, Lukasz Czajka
Grzegorz Hartfiel
Piotr Bodak
Magdalena Borowiec, Tatiana Matysiak, Volia Chajkouskaya

Pure Art

Director: Maksim Shved
Year: 2019
Genre: documentary
Countries: Belarus, Poland
Length: 50 min.
Original language: Belarusian, Russian, Polish
Subtitles: English

Script: Maksim Shved, Lukasz Czajka
DoP: Grzegorz Hartfiel
Editor: Piotr Bodak
Producers: Magdalena Borowiec, Tatiana Matysiak, Volia Chajkouskaya
Synopsis

Communal painters Zina and Inna carefully paint over the graffiti and slogans on the walls of Minsk, leaving colorful rectangles as a result. The abstract artist Zakhar Kudin is inspired by these bright figures and decides to copy them onto the huge canvases. Passers-by, intrigued by Zakhar's performance, are trying to interpret his work and express their opinions, but not only about art. Watching the birth of an artistic phenomenon, the film shows contemporary Belarus with irony and love and raises questions relevant not only to this country.

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