Igor Aleynikov

Directing

Igor Aleynikov

Born 1962-03-15 · Grozny, USSR

Igor Aleynikov was born in Grozny, lived and worked in Moscow, died together with his wife Vera in a plane crash near Mezhdurechensk. The ideologist of the creation and leader of the movement "parallel cinema", which gave a socio-cultural niche to independent filmmakers. Popularizer of the movement. The creator of the "parallel cinema" film festival is CINE FANTOM. The editor-in-chief of the "Samizdat" magazine about cinema is CINE FANTOM. Author and director of more than 30 films. Participant and jury member of several international film and video festivals.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

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Ameriga

2000

Somebody Was Here... poster
8.0

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

Somebody Was Here...

1990

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

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

Interview poster
NR

An artist is searching for a subject in the open air. Suddenly, a man emerges from a chimney. They become acquainted. The artist invites his new acquaintance to his studio and shows him his work. Suddenly, in a parallel reality, they find themselves members of a radical cell in Germany, where the future of that country is being foretold. The vision disappears. And the artist paints a portrait of his new acquaintance. It is 1982. A portrait of Leonid Ilyich is visible in Red Square. War is raging in the Falkland Islands.

Interview

1982

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

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

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

Attraction poster
NR

"Cinema Verite" with existential metaphorism. 8mm.

Attraction

1983

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

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Post-Political Cinema

1988

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Typist

1989

Within Four Walls poster
NR

The film is an experimental independent film exploring Soviet reality.

Within Four Walls

Waiting for de Bil poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Waiting for de Bil

1989

Top Point poster
NR

Since part of the filming was carried out on the 9th floor, from the window of the Biryulevskaya high-rise building, as if from the point of view of an angel, only not flying, but sitting in a high tower.

Top Point

1982

Top Point poster
NR

Since part of the filming was carried out on the 9th floor, from the window of the Biryulevskaya high-rise building, as if from the point of view of an angel, only not flying, but sitting in a high tower.

Top Point

1982

Top Point poster
NR

Since part of the filming was carried out on the 9th floor, from the window of the Biryulevskaya high-rise building, as if from the point of view of an angel, only not flying, but sitting in a high tower.

Top Point

1982

Mirages poster
NR

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

Mirages

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

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

Attraction 2 poster
NR

"Cinema Verite" with existential metaphorism. 16mm.

Attraction 2

1985