Directed Yevteyeva filmed “sverhpovest” Velimir Khlebnikov “Ka” – Russian newspaper

The film “Creation, or 4 Ka Velimir Khlebnikov” Petersburg director Irina Yevteyeva (“Little Tragedies”, “Demon”, “Clown”) will mark the 130- anniversary of the Russian avant-garde, which Mayakovsky described as “Columbus new poetic material.” It will attempt to film his strange creations convey the virtuosity and power of attraction of its “juggling with words.” The film – “sverhpovest” Khlebnikov “Ka” written exactly one hundred years ago – in 1915.

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According to Egyptian mythology, the Ka – the life force that exists separately from its “master”. It is not the people themselves, as it were their soul materialized. On the one hand, “Creation …” – the story of how the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten sends the main character, so his Ka. On the other – a love story Layla and Medluma, heroes of the poem Khlebnikov.

As always Irene Evteyeva designs, game start in the film combined with the technique of animation and real biographical facts – with imagination. Although formally the action relates to the time of the First World War, the heroes of works of Khlebnikov is not linked to a specific era and a particular space – so the audience along with them the future picture will appear in ancient Egypt, in Syria, and its lyrical hero is subject to karmic reincarnation. As recognized by the film producer Andrey Sigle (studio Proline Film), it has always attracted and creativity Khlebnikov and his era, “he founder of Russian futurism, his creations was reading Daniil Kharms. Phantasmagoric world of heroes Khlebnikov exactly reflects the inner search of the author”.

Velimir Khlebnikov thought: man is born, to discover new worlds – like Irina Yevteyeva. “He came up with his own world, his” bird language “without it there would be poets such as Mayakovsky and Pasternak. His poems are often called strange and abstruse, but in them you can see a lot of very interesting, beautiful images. It seemed to me that the technique in which I work, will allow the volume and vividly bring them to the big screen “.

Technology, which says Yevteyeva – its unique authoring: playing the actor takes an ordinary camera, and then the image is projected on the glass, where there manually – light, color, line or spot – processed each frame, transforming according to the artist in a moving painting. The same method was used in the filming of the movie recently Irina Evteyeva “Arventur” based on Alexander Green – at the Moscow Film Festival in 2015, he was awarded “Silver George”.

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“This is the story of the relationship between the artist and the power of the relationship between time and space, a combination of paint and the words” – he promises to press release of the film. In the role of Klebnikov – Vladimir Mishka (“Arventur”, “Crime and Punishment”, “Brutus”). “I want to try to reduce the distance between the modern viewer, reader and creativity Klebnikov, awaken interest in his poems – he says. – Show him not” zaumtsem “not holy fool from the literature, but a living, suffering man passed through all the calamities of his time “.

As always in films Evteyeva an important role in the new film to play music – it says Andrey Sigle, a long time working with Irina Evteyeva and as a producer and as a film composer. “Music Yevteyeva devotes a special place, – he said. – It sounds almost continuously, then subsided, the newly born out of silence. The future film – a mixture of ages, countries, realities, and for me as a composer is a fascinating challenge”.