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.
Nikita Diakur
Germany/France
2022
English
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MODES 3
Whimsical, questioning and utterly absorbing, a collection of animated work delving into worlds of wonder, subversion, and Marxist mystery. These works are fun and some re-construct ideas of animation, paying homage to experimentalists who came before.
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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
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.