At work
A short and lyric sketch of city life and routine lives of precarious workers.
The film is based mainly on shots from web-cameras.
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Margarita KariukDirector
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Project Type:Experimental, Short
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Runtime:6 minutes 36 seconds
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Completion Date:February 27, 2022
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Production Budget:0 USD
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Country of Origin:Russian Federation
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Country of Filming:Russian Federation, Turkey
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Language:English
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Shooting Format:Digital
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Aspect Ratio:4:3
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Film Color:Color
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First-time Filmmaker:Yes
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Student Project:No
Bio
Margarita Kariuk is a freelance film artist.
Born in 1989 in Moscow in a family of film artists. Since the young age I was immersed in a film scene. I participated in various film projects leading by well-known russian film directors, I worked as cameraman and lighting designer mainly within a film crew conducting by my grandfather – prominent director of photography.
After school I studied cinematography in a Russian film school VGIK. After my education I realized that I want to make films as an author in an independent film field, outside the film industry producing commercial and entertaining stuff.
Currently I finished my first middle-length film, where I try to explore the possibilities of blurring the boundaries between fiction and documentary genres.
I remembered one remark left by some critic about the novel "Gómez Palacio" written by Roberto Bolaño. "It's a kind of floats above a sea of white noise. Never makes a definitive move toward a melody of plot, but leaves you feeling extraordinarily affected", he said. Since I read it I started carefully think about this way of creating a story. I think it is very close how I see a cinema