Around this time lat year I was raving about a Russian short film titled The Collector and its director, Egor Abramenko. Abramenko showed huge promise with his short, so much so that I happily brought the film to these shores for some festivals that I was working with and compared the icy precision of his compositions to Korea's Park Chan Wook. It's high praise, I know, but Abramenko deserved it. And now he's back, joined once again by The Collector actors Yaroslav Zhalnin and Natalia Rusinova.
The film is titled Polaroid Love, a half hour short that mines very different territory than The Collector - this is more of a quiet drama - but is no less impressive. In fact, the film has already won a trio of awards at the VGIK Film Festival - Best Actor, Bet Editing and Best Production. Abramenko has made a complete, English subtitled version available online and we've got it below the break.
Very nice work.
It's also good to see filmmakers breaking the mold in regards to the running times of short films. I think it's very wrong to dictate one standard to the multitude of ideas and stories that need to be expressed in different ways.
So Polaroid Love made me smile.
I also loved The Collector. It was dark and creepy but also clever and minimlistic.
I can tell Abramenko is a fan of Se7en.
You are right about "The Collector". I'm really a fan of Se7en.
During creating of "Polaroid Love" our main reference was Corbijn's "Control".
Thanks for the opinion.
those were some well spent 35 minutes. I could relate to a lot of emotions and moods portrayed, so it was a nostalgia-heavy watch for me :)
which aint a bad thing.