It is a priviledge given to TiSFF by Aleksandr Kott to screen his poetic cinema !
With TEST, a film that is both magic and intimate, dramatic and ironic. 
And two of his beautiful and multi-awarded shorts.
All three, a unique lesson in the beauty of cinema.

TEST * ISPYTANIE

Aleksandr Kott, Rusia

130′

TEST is a film that is both intimate and heavily informed by dramatic irony, upholding a tone that falls somewhere between fatalistic despair and dark cosmic comedy while still regarding the in-moment emotions of its characters. As a feature that lets its impeccably crafted images do all the talking, Kott’s film deftly presents impersonal history as an external, omnipotent force, capable of unceremoniously wiping thoughts, dreams and even personal histories off the face of the earth.

FISH * RYBA

Aleksandr Kott, Russia

15′

A film poem about a boy who finds wonder among snowy desert.

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THE GIANT * VELIKAN

Aleksandr Kott, Russia
15′

In the far eastern republic, there was a strange man. A wanderer, in a word. And he had nothing but a stack of photos from the past and some simple belongings that he carried with him. He wandered from village to village, and when he came to the next one, he laid out stones with numbers on the square around him, climbed on tall stilts, put a wooden lock on his head, and stood motionless all day, pretending to be a sundial. That’s how he earned his living. And then one day, in one of the villages, he met a little girl who had no friends.

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