Float Away

Adrien Lodygensky, at 19 years old, is a young film director, cinematographer, and editor. Maybe too many titles at such a young age, but he can’t help himself: his mind was wired to create, wired to make films.
With a childhood immersed in drawings, he developed a very visual imagination, which would later become crucial to his cinematography, giving him the ability to construct scenes, shots, and lighting, especially lighting. With a clear idea of his visuals, he can see his film when writing them.
With an adolescence stimulated by performing arts, he discovered he could use his imagination to captivate and impact an audience. It wasn’t the applauses or the compliments he craved, but the interactions his work could generate. It made him want to improve and cultivate his ability to tell stories.
For the past year, he has seen a huge artistic growth in projects due to his dedicated attention to his craft: he works part time as an editor and a full time a student in Film Production at Concordia. Thanks to his program, he also started collaborating on his peer’s shorts to put his cinematography skills to use. And as for his own projects, he has made most of his short films by himself, because he wants to understand every state of the process. That is how he builds and visualizes his ideas: by knowing how he is going to make them. Up till now, that meant he had to construct his stories within the walls of reality, but in his most recent project he has been exploring the line between live action and animation using a technique called rotoscoping. He created his own method that utilizes the power of computers to automate and therefore speed up the animation process. However even if his creations grow in complexity, he grounds them to his personal struggles that tend to have the recurring themes of dreams, egoism, condescension, honesty, and suffering. His goal is to create the best movies he is able to make.