Gleb Aleynikov

Directing

Gleb Aleynikov

Born

1966-03-12 (60)

Place of birth

Grozny, USSR

Known for

Directing

Credits

41 titles

Gleb Aleynikov and his brother Igor entered the history of cinema as the creator of "parallel cinema", underground films shot on narrow film, such as "Tractors" (1987), "I'm Cold, so what?" (1987), "Cruel Illness of Men" (1987), "Post-Political Cinema" (1988). The Aleynikov brothers began working in the official cinema system in the late 1980s. Having shot the short film "Someone Was Here" (1989) and the feature film "Tractor Drivers 2" (1992) on the basis of the Mosfilm film studio, they at the same time continued to work in parallel independent cinema ("Ameriga", 1990-97).

Known for

Film credits

2000s · 5 titles

Behind the camera

Good and Bad poster
10.0

The beautiful model from Ryazan Sveta and her fellow kickboxer Stepa in early childhood took an oath to love each other to the grave. But Stepan joined the army, where he soon received news that Sveta had left for Moscow with a rich producer. Now she shines on the catwalks of the capital. Stepa decides to go to Moscow and become a kickboxing champion.

Good and Bad

2000

The Girl and Buda poster
NR

Experimental short.

The Girl and Buda

1984

Somebody Was Here... poster
8.0

A man looks for his friend, but finds himself instead...

Somebody Was Here...

1990

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Ameriga

2000

No artwork available
NR

This film was shot in 1988. The main action takes place in a rock group's studio during the visit of a few acolytes from Theatre Theatre. It is all served up in connection with Fassbinder «s notion of Antitheatre. The theme of the “mad prince” in actors» improvisations intertwines with the fate of the director and of directing in general. The adventures of the spirit form the true tale of this film. We use only the single interior, the studio room where nothing happens aside from the pulsations of spirit. It comes to life here, and it rests, as if gaining new strength. The Mad Prince Fassbinder is, indeed, spirit. Only a free camera is capable of capturing this freedom.

The Mad Prince: Fassbinder

1988

The Mad Prince: Playing XO poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Mad Prince: Playing XO

1987

The Mad Prince: Esther poster
10.0

Boris Yukhananov, along with his friends Tauz, Salah, Nadia and Olya, come to shoot an episode for the video novel "The Crazy Prince" to Nikita, who in turn is in a film expedition near Pskov. Along the way, the tragic history of the Chechen people is interfaced with the biblical book of Esther, a video with a movie, love with death, the sun with night, and happiness with tears.

The Mad Prince: Esther

1987

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Post-Political Cinema

1988

Nikolay Berezkin's Love Story poster
NR

Based on paintings by the artist Oleg Golosiy.

Nikolay Berezkin's Love Story

1994

Nikolay Berezkin's Love Story poster
NR

Based on paintings by the artist Oleg Golosiy.

Nikolay Berezkin's Love Story

1994

Nikolay Berezkin's Love Story poster
NR

Based on paintings by the artist Oleg Golosiy.

Nikolay Berezkin's Love Story

1994

Aquarium Fish of This World poster
4.0

Aquarium Fish of This World is the story of the relationship between the captain and the boatswain, temporarily written off ashore, with a young guy who dreams of becoming a cabin boy.

Aquarium Fish of This World

1990

Aquarium Fish of This World poster
4.0

Aquarium Fish of This World is the story of the relationship between the captain and the boatswain, temporarily written off ashore, with a young guy who dreams of becoming a cabin boy.

Aquarium Fish of This World

1990

I'm Cold. So What? poster
NR

The piece presents a series of bizarre tableaux, many involving cinematic voyeurism, blurring of the living-dead borderline and a healthy amount of stabbing, of oneself and of others. A catatonic fellow gets costumed as a ghoul; a literal tree-hugger, ecstatic in his arboreal embrace, gets stabbed; a bespectacled fellow with a Bolex-y camera goes around documenting it all.

I'm Cold. So What?

1987

Zenboxing poster
NR

How to defeat a warrior who has not yet been born, if you have already died? Trendy style, paradoxical language, paranormal phenomena, ancient China, black humor, the Internet, love, kickboxing fights - the real magic of ZENBOXING.

Zenboxing

1998

Zenboxing poster
NR

How to defeat a warrior who has not yet been born, if you have already died? Trendy style, paradoxical language, paranormal phenomena, ancient China, black humor, the Internet, love, kickboxing fights - the real magic of ZENBOXING.

Zenboxing

1998

No artwork available
4.7

Under a score of abbreviated drones and freeform woodwinds, the Aleinikov brothers cut together a series of images, found and made, that look unfailingly bleak, industrial or both bleak and industrial: disused factories, clunky utilitarian machinery, strings of unsettlingly young violinists, old-timey group portraits with everyone's eyes scratched out. Interspersed are less overtly sinister but somehow eerier snatches of action, like a circling brood of crude stop-motion mice or a bunch of little wooden people chopping wood and sawing logs, all differently affected by the vagaries time and the physical world foist onto film stock.

Cruel Illness of Men

1989

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Typist

1989

Metastasis poster
NR

Found footage and found sound. Badly solarized training films, documentary fragments, speeches of USSR party leaders and rock 'n' roll form a horrifying picture of media pressure.

Metastasis

1984

Mirages poster
NR

A musical film featuring Sergei Letov's band "Tri O".

Mirages

1989

M. E. poster
6.2

The waste of the toy factory "Ogonyok", clumps of multicolored thermally deformed plastic, turn into a new biological species, then into a new direction of modern art, then into an isolated language of a native tribe discovered by linguists in the jungle, where words must be carried silently with you and shown if necessary, then into heroes of crazy phantasmagoric news.

M. E.

1986

M. E. poster
6.2

The waste of the toy factory "Ogonyok", clumps of multicolored thermally deformed plastic, turn into a new biological species, then into a new direction of modern art, then into an isolated language of a native tribe discovered by linguists in the jungle, where words must be carried silently with you and shown if necessary, then into heroes of crazy phantasmagoric news.

M. E.

1986

Tractors poster
NR

One of the most impressive symbols of a happy Soviet life, peaceful labour and rich harvest. Being mystified to the highest degree, the film acquires traits of a mystical animal, a human being and just a machine.

Tractors

1987

Waiting for de Bil poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Waiting for de Bil

1989

Revolutionary Sketches poster
NR

The brothers Aleinikov lay out turgid governmental speeches about "the rearing of a new man" under footage of dudes goofing around in space-alien costumes. They roll footage of apple-cheeked future Stakhanovites upside down and backwards. They crudely animate - in a certain South Parkian way - CCCP (USSR) icons in a goofy manner.

Revolutionary Sketches

1987

For Marx... poster
7.0

The workers fight for their rights creating independent union. They know that it is the only way to struggle against the owners of the plant.

For Marx...

2013

Tractor Drivers 2 poster
4.4

The remake of the original 1939 "Tractor Drivers"... Same heroes, but totally different times.

Tractor Drivers 2

1992

Tractor Drivers 2 poster
4.4

The remake of the original 1939 "Tractor Drivers"... Same heroes, but totally different times.

Tractor Drivers 2

1992