Directing
Florian Yuriev
Born — Died
1929-08-11 — 2022-09-11
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Directing
Credits
4 titles
Florian Yuriev is a Ukrainian teacher, artist, architect, composer, art critic, scientist, colorist, master artist of violin musical instruments, candidate of art history, poet, honored worker of culture of Ukraine, public figure. Known as the architect and creator of the "Flying Saucer" (designed by Yuriev in 1978) - one of the architectural sights of Kyiv, which later they wanted to illegally reconstruct and rebuild, which is the subject of 2 documentaries by Oleksiy Radynski - "Facade Colour: Blue" (2019; short) and "Infinity According to Florian" (2022; full-length). He died in Kyiv, in 2022. The material of the abstract film about nature shot by him was edited into a short film calle…
Known for
NRAn unfinished abstract film by Florian Yuriev that the author worked on in the 1970s and was thought to be lost. The materials were found, restored and edited after Yuriev's death by director Oleksiy Radynski, preserving the original idea and visual images of Yuriev.
Film Dedicated to Water and Trees
2023
NRFlorian Yuriev is an architect, artist, violin maker, theoretician and poet. At the age of 90 he has to master another, completely new skill. In order to save his architectural project, Kyiv’s ‘Flying Saucer’, from turning into part of a shopping mall, Florian Yuriev launches a campaign against the arbitrary power of developers in the capital.
Facade Colour: Blue
2019
NR90-year-old architect Florian Yuriev is facing the destruction of his magnum opus: an avant-garde concert hall set to be repurposed as a shopping mall. Florian confronts the powerful real estate developer behind this investment project, and uses his visionary ideas to capture an unlikely victory. This is an architectural documentary with infusions of science fiction and horror film.
Infinity According to Florian
2025
Film credits
Behind the camera
NRAn unfinished abstract film by Florian Yuriev that the author worked on in the 1970s and was thought to be lost. The materials were found, restored and edited after Yuriev's death by director Oleksiy Radynski, preserving the original idea and visual images of Yuriev.
Film Dedicated to Water and Trees
2023
NRAn unfinished abstract film by Florian Yuriev that the author worked on in the 1970s and was thought to be lost. The materials were found, restored and edited after Yuriev's death by director Oleksiy Radynski, preserving the original idea and visual images of Yuriev.
Film Dedicated to Water and Trees
2023