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Given his own limited abilities and the present danger of physical injury, filmmaker Nikita Diakur decides to teach his computer-generated avatar to do a backflip; what follows is priceless.

Director
Cast

Nikita Diakur

Credits
Country of Origin

Germany/France

Year

2022

Language

English

Film Contact
12 min

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Credits

Producer

Emmanuel-Alain Raynal, Pierre Baussaron, Nikita Diakur

Screenwriter

Nikita Diakur

Cinematography

Gerhard Funk, María Guadalupe Anaya Alderete

ANIM

Nikita Diakur

Editor

Nikita Diakur

Original Music

avia.ai, thunderkamp

Director

Nikita Diakur headshot, backflip director

Nikita Diakur

Nikita Diakur is a Russian-born filmmaker based in Germany. He is best known for his projects Ugly (2017) and Fest (2018), which have received critical acclaim at film festivals around the world. His signature style is dynamic computer simulation that embraces spontaneity, randomness, and error.