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The return of a curonian pilot

Visual research of mythological landscape of the Curonian Spit. It is performed in a form of live-cinema, where different times, documental and staged materials, history and myth unite into one multidimensional layer of the projected image.
The film is based on a spiritual séance held by international group of artists as well as on dreams and stories collected in Nida and cultural landscape of the spit (Thomas Mann, Sartre, closed flight school, etc.).
Video streams are mixed in order and combinations related to scores and defined by twisting draidel. As well there is a audio player reproducing the song performed in traditional Lithuanian manner based on a poem “To the star brother” by Russian anarcho-biocosmist A. Yaroslavskiy.
Duration is variable and equals to one bottle of wine to be drank by performer of the video.
As there are five different languages spoken in the movie and order of scenes is not determined in advance, instead of subtitles there is an special libretto given.

  • Petr Zhukov
    Director
  • Petr Zhukov
    Writer
  • Nida Art Colony
    Producer
  • Luisa Nobrega
    Key Cast
  • Nikita Pavlov
    Director of Photography
  • Egle Marciulaityte
    Singer
  • Kirill Shirokov
    Video performed by
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Возвращение куршского пилота
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Music Video, Web / New Media, Other
  • Genres:
    live-cinema, video art, perfromance, spiritualism
  • Runtime:
    1 hour 1 minute 2 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    June 19, 2015
  • Production Budget:
    800 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Russian Federation
  • Country of Filming:
    Lithuania
  • Language:
    German, Lithuanian, Portuguese, Russian, Turkish
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital, Video8, VHS
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Metageography, State Tretyakov Gallery
    Moscow
    Russian Federation
    November 13, 2016
  • Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow screening
    Moscow
    Russian Federation
    June 19, 2015
  • National Center for Contemporary Arts screening
    Moscow
    Russian Federation
    November 7, 2014
Director Biography - Petr Zhukov

BIOGRAPHY
Born 1982. Situated in Russia, Moscow. Member of Upward! community.Member of the editorial board of the video-magazine VIDIOT.
Main media: video and audio-visual performance.

Education:
Moscow Rodchenko School of Photography and Multimedia (2007-2009)
Institute Contemporary Arts, Moscow (2006-2007)
Lomonosov Moscow State University, Physics department (1999-2005)

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016
Arctichnost-1 (screening), MSSES, Moscow;
Farewell to fireplace (screening), International Film Festival 2morrow, Documentary Film Center, Moscow, Russian Federation.
Myth and Reality: Questions on Narrative in the video films of Petr Zhukov (screening, artist talk), Neu West Berlin Art Gallery, Berlin, Germany.
2015
Arctichnost-1 (screening), The State Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val, Moscow, Russian Federation.
The return of a curonian Pilot (screening), The State Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val, Moscow, Russian Federation.
Arctichnost-1 (screening), Vadim Sidur museum, Moscow, Russian Federation.
The return of a curonian Pilot (screening), Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, Moscow, Russian Federation.
The return of a curonian Pilot (screening), Moscow School of New Cinema, Moscow, Russian Federation.
2014
The return of a curonian Pilot (screening), Malonioji 6, Art gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania.
The return of a curonian Pilot (screening), National Center for Contemporary Arts, Moscow, Russian Federation.
2013
Telepathic session with a phantom (with Luisa Nobrega), Nida art colony, Nida, Lithuania.
Battleship (with D. Zinchenko), D-2 submarine museum, Saint-Petersbug, Russian Federation.
Moving upward! (with D. Zinchenko), Galeriju sv. Trojica, Kastav, Croatia.
Hawking dreams. How do survival is going to get out of this situation. Screeining (with D. Zinchenko), Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, Moscow, Russian Federation.
Wandering of st. Denis, Brown stripe gallery, Moscow, Russian Federation.
Year 7521 after Creation in the Star temple, Govno gallery, Kaliningrad, Russian Federation.
2012
U, ProArte, Saint-Petersbug, Russian Federation.
The Workshop vs The Film Process (Zhukov, Zinchenko, Venkov), National Center for Contemporary Arts, Moscow, Russian Federation.
U165, screening (with D. Zinchenko), Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, Moscow, Russian Federation.
2011
κόσμος, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France.
Artist as society (Video screenings, public talk), National Center for Contemporary Arts, Moscow, Russian Federation.
2010
Russia Online Tube, Musrara Mix #10 festival, Jerusalem, Israel.
2007
Art After Compression, Electrobutique gallery, Moscow, Russian Federation.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2015
Poetronica 2015, National Center for Contemporary Arts, Moscow, Russian Federation.
Open Systems. Self-Organized Art Initiatives in Russia: 2000–2015, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art , Moscow, Russian Federation.
Metageography. Space - Image - Action. (Special Project Of The 6th Moscow Biennale Of The Contemporary Art), The State Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val, Moscow, Russian Federation.
Possibility of flight, National Center for Contemporary Arts, Moscow, Russian Federation.
2014
Lost in Transformation, Klaipeda Culture Communication Center, Klaipeda, Lithuania.
Metageography, Kramskoy museum, Voronezh, Russian Federation.
Angelic conversation, Electromuseum, Moscow, Russian Federation.
Kurykhin prize short list exhibition, Kurykhin center, Saint-Petersbug, Russian Federation.
Innovation prize exhibition, National Center for Contemporary Arts, Moscow, Russian Federation.
2013
5th Moscow Biennale Film Program, Manege, Moscow, Russian Federation.
Moscow international film festival (Shorts special program), October cinema theatre, Moscow, Russian Federation.
How are you?, Eastern gallery, Moscow, Russian Federation.
Kino-photo-ludogusj, National Center for Contemporary Arts, Moscow, Russian Federation.
2012
Happiness is a warm gun, Rizzordi Art Foundation, Saint-Petersbug, Russian Federation.
Lost in tranformation, Stadtgalerie Kiel, Kiel, Germany.
Barbarians, Project_Fabrica, Moscow, Russian Federation.
Dust, Laboratoria Art&Science, Moscow, Russian Federation.
2011
From the realm of the practical knowledge, GMG gallery, special project 4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russian Federation.
In deep, IX Krasnoyarsk museum biennale, Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation.
Cosmos 2, Krasnoyarsk Museum Center, Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation.
Field of silence, video exhibition on an ice field, Khlebnikovo, Russian Federation.
2010
History of russian videoart. Vol.3, Moscow museum of modern art, Moscwo, Russian Federation.
Zones of visible, PROEKT_FABRIKA, Moscow, Russian Federation.
Sens and Sensebility, ArtPlay at Yauza, Moscow, Russian Federation.
2009
Russia — Siberia — Aldan, Aldan natural history museum, Aldan, Russian Federation.

FILMOGRAPHY
Director:
"Tomorrow will be the same" (postproduction), 2015-2016;
"Horoz ve marti" (postproduction), 2014-2016;
"Arctichnost-1", duration varies, 2014-2015;
"The return of a curonian Pilot", duration varies, 2013-2015;
“Farewell to fireplace”, 19 min, 2013;
“Hawking dreams” (with D. Zinchenko), 24 min, 2013;
“Young man`s diary”, 27 min, 2012;
“U”, 15 min, 2011/2012;
“Russia upward!” (with D. Zinchenko), 13 min, 2010;
“The Way of Samodelkin”, 104 min, 2009/2011;
“Maranatha”, 23 min., 2008 — 2009;
“Kotlin 2050” (with E. Gavrilova), 24 min, 2006 — 2007;
“54 characters” (with E. Gavrilova), 49 min, 2005
Editor:
«When New Year comes on Shabbat» (director Nikita Pavlov, 104 min, documentary), 2011;

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Director Statement

I work on the edge of video-art and cinematography exploring mythology in modern culture. My main aproach is perfromative interaction with culturaly important locations with futher reworking of collected material for recreating certain senses.
In present time developing different approaches of narrative video representation with live perfroming and co-interacting with music and sound scapes.