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Rainy Red

This story unfolding through surreal imagery, is an existential take on the creative process and life cycle which emotionally drains as much as it exhilarates. A young artist feels cut off from the world in a little apartment surrounded by a fluid and nebulous world. She finds herself standing at the impasse between what she wants and what she fears. This emotional, physical, mental and spiritual isolation eventually propels her to explore her inner world. Fact and fiction collide as she grapples against her wrenching creative block. To move forward, she takes Medicine for Melancholy and her memories and fantasies begin merging, giving her an impulse to use herself and her room as a canvas of recollections and experiences from her darker times to create a new vivid art that reasserts the value of life itself.

  • Evguenia Men
    Director
    Orange Dreaming, Conflict
  • Evguenia Men
    Writer
    Orange Dreaming, Conflict
  • Evguenia Men
    Producer
    Orange Dreaming, Conflict
  • Irina Kharatishvili
    Key Cast
    Conflict
  • Tobin Price
    Key Cast
    Conflict
  • Artem Men
    Key Cast
    Orange Dreaming, Conflict
  • Lisa Cherrie
    Rainy Red
    Rainy Red, vocals
  • Russel Davidson
    Rainy Red
    Lyrics for a song in Rainy Red
  • Evguenia Men
    Rainy Red
    Rainy Red producer,director, writer
  • Irina Kharatishvili
    Rainy Red
    actress in Rainy Red
  • Artem Men
    Rainy Red
    camera, music (Tank Faberge) in Rainy Red
  • Tobin Price
    Rainy Red
    sound recording in Rainy Red
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Short, Other
  • Genres:
    Art House film, avant-garde film
  • Runtime:
    7 minutes 17 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    November 28, 2015
  • Production Budget:
    5,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Australia
  • Country of Filming:
    Australia
  • Language:
    English, Georgian
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Black & White and Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Venice Film Festival, Official Selection, 29.08. - 04.09 September 2016,Italy
    Venice
    Italy
    International Premiere
  • The Ekurhuleni International Film Festival, semi finalist, 23-25 June, SA 2016
  • Galactic Colours, laurel:the most popular film, 2016 USA
  • WMAFF, Official Selection, October 2016 Australia
  • Flexiff, Official Selection, September 2016 Australia
  • Rakayt Film Festival, Official Selection, November 2016 Indonesia

    Indonesia
  • UK Screen One International Film Festival, Official Selection: March, 2017 UK
    London
    United Kingdom
    March 5, 2017
Distribution Information
  • Evguenia Men
    Country: Australia
Director Biography - Evguenia Men

Born in St. Petersburg, Russia
1979-1983 Junior Artist, Junior Art College, St. Petersburg, Russia
1984-1989 Master degree in Chemistry, St. Petersburg State University
1993-1997 Bachelor degree in Film Directing, St. Petersburg Institute of Cinematography and Television
2010 – November 9-26, finalists exhibition of International Art Competition ”ArtPreview” at”Kino”gallery, Moscow Russia, special recognition by jury in painting and digital art.
2011 – June 14 – July 4, digital art exhibition “PostRealizm.Version1” at “Black Dog Gallery”, Moscow Russia, awarded by a Diploma for “ Contribution to Russian Culture” by a President of Creative Union Of Russian Artists
2011 – November 7 -10, a finalists exhibition of International Art Competition of Modern Art(artpreview.ru) At the Zurab Ceretelli Gallery, Moscow Russia
2011-December(16.12.2011-10.01.2011) Russian-australian project”Time and Memory”,Black Dog Gallery, Moscow
2012 – January(10.01.2012 – 31.01.2012) project “Time and Memory”, Chocolate Factory, Moscow
2012 – February(01.02.2012 – 29.02.20120 PROJECT “Time and Memory” Naberezhnaya Tower, Moscow
2012 – November – a finalist of Art Preview international Art Competition, Vernadskii Museum, Moscow, Russia
2013 – June, group exhibition” L’AGENZIA DI ARTE with Love”, Santa Rocha Museum, Portugal
2013 – August, group exhibition” L’AGENZIA DI ARTE with Love’, Madeira Island Cultural Centre, Portugal
2013 – September 20-22, “Orange Dreaming” art film , official selection and Opening Night at FleXiff International Film Festival 2013, Sydney, Australia
2013 – November 23-24 “Orange Dreaming” film, official selection at 5th Wordless International Film Festival Sydney, Australia
2014 January Art Preview International Art Competition – finalists exhibition, Black Dog Gallery, Moscow Russia
PUBLIC AND CORPORATE COLLECTIONS:
DolmatConnell & Partners, Inc., Boston, USA;
Chateau des Reaux, public gallery, Chouze sur Loire, France

FILMS and VIDEOS
One Day of Actor’s Life, 1995, 35 mm, b/w, 10 min, Saint Petersburg, Russia
International Congress on Nitrogen Fixation, 1995, video, 30 min, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
Orange of the Sculptor, 1996, 35 mm, color, 5 min, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
Corrosive Materials, 1997, video program, Knoxville Television, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
Mosaic Hills of East Tennessee, 1998, video, 20 min, Tennessee, USA
Orange Dreaming, 2013, digital video, 8 min. Brisbane, Australia
Festivals:
FleXiff Experimental International film festival 2013 Australia - Official Selection;
Wordless International film festival 2013 Australia - Official Selection;
Women Media Art and Film Festival 2013 Australia - Official Selection
On line winner
AVIFF Cannes 2014 – Official Selection
November 2014 -Jury’s member for Wordless International Film Festival, Sydney Australia
White Hot Black, 2013,videoart, 3min. Brisbane, Australia
Conflict, 09.2014, art film , 3 min., Australia
Festivals:
The Programme 23.03.15—27.03.15 |international Film Festival, shortlisted Hanover Project, UK 2015
2014 TIFVA NOMINEES Toronto International Film and Video Award, experimental section, may 2015
Proceso de Error - Festival Internacional de Video Experimental, Vavparaiso, Chile , April 2015
Fringe Arts Bath Festival - Magic Lantern, UK, June 2015
Walthamstow International Film Festival, short listed London UK 2015
Athens Video Art Festival, shortlisted, Greece 2015
.Altered State – international exhibition of experimental films at Visual Arts Festival “Coastal Currents” situated in the creative hubs of Hastings and St Leonards , UK2015
OFFICIAL SELECTION ~ SPECIAL FLEXIFF AWARD NOMINEES, Sydney Australia, September 2015
International Façade Video Festival, official selection, Bulgary
A Winner at Media Arts category at WMAFF,September, Sydney Australia
Codec video experimental festival, short- listed, Mexico, December 2015
“Blow-Up” Chicago International Art House Film Festival, nominated finalist for Eisenstein Award(experimental category), November 25 2015, USA

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Synopsis of film “Rainy red” 2 by Irina Kharatishvili in English and in French

This story unfolding through surreal imagery, is an existential take on the creative process and life cycle which emotionally drains as much as it exhilarates. A young artist feels cut off from the world in a little apartment surrounded by a fluid and nebulous world. She finds herself standing at the impasse between what she wants and what she fears. This emotional, physical, mental and spiritual isolation eventually propels her to explore her inner world. Fact and fiction collide as she grapples against her wrenching creative block. To move forward, she takes Medicine for Melancholy and her memories and fantasies begin merging, giving her an impulse to use herself and her room as a canvas of recollections and experiences from her darker times to create a new vivid art that reasserts the value of life itself.

Synopsis du film " Rainy rouge» 2 par Irina Kharatishvili
Cette histoire se déroule grâce à l'imagerie surréaliste , est une prise existentielle sur le processus créatif et de cycle de vie qui draine émotionnellement autant qu'il vivifie . Un jeune artiste se sent coupé du monde dans un petit appartement entouré par un monde fluide et nébuleux. Elle se trouve debout à l'impasse entre ce qu'elle veut et ce qu'elle craint . Cet isolement affectif, physique , mental et spirituel l'a finalement propulse à explorer son monde intérieur . Réalité et fiction entrent en collision alors qu'elle se débat contre son blocage créatif déchirante . Pour aller de l'avant , elle prend des médicaments pour la mélancolie et ses souvenirs et fantasmes commencer à fusionner , en lui donnant une impulsion à elle-même et sa chambre comme une toile de souvenirs et les expériences de ses moments les plus sombres utiliser pour créer un nouvel art vivante qui réaffirme la valeur de la vie lui-même.

The film starts and ends with main character's inner monologue (in Georgian).