Stanislaw Lem - Oceans of Solaris Print

Film director amateur, photographer, artist, journalist, volunteer. Born in 1971 in Kharkiv. I am 49 years old, I started drawing at the age of 49, I have been doing art since birth. First the art of walking and talking, then kindergarten, then the trepanation of the skull after a bad play in the playground, resuscitation, six months in neurosurgery, then school, five or six concussions. All this was wrapped up in life in the USSR: my father was a party member, a experienced communist, my mother hated the communism. Then the dream of studying the theater and entering the Kharkiv Polytechnic by order of the party and parents: "You will walk in a jacket and tie, like a normal person, and not thump around the corner, like those drunken artists and actors." Then my student years, work on building works (I am a self-taught painter-plasterer), Barabashovo market, where I worked as a salesman and loader. During breaks, film photography, then digital photography, then video, then marriage and two children. Again camera and camera, home video and a lots of family photos and videos. Then the beginning of the war with Russia in 2014, then the death of my father, the rude coroners who threw in a UAZ with an open board my father`s body, at the "one-two-three" and my family looked at this. Then moving to Lviv and constant negative pictures before my eyes. To get rid of them, I picked up a camera and started shooting videos in Lviv with my wife. Then documentaries. Some of them have won awards at foreign film festivals. The Ukrainian film community did not accept our film art, considering us amateurs, although we are amateurs, because we have no specialized education in film production. Of all the Ukrainian film festivals, us only at the Kaniv Film Festival we were happily accepted. Then our own audio-visual projects, which we presented in Ukraine and abroad. In between filming and editing the video, I wrote poems for adults and children, wrote a few songs. Then Pavlo Gudimov with the architectural festival "Tower", the project "Angels", Levynsky… Then covid 19 and quarantine. The events are over, there is nothing to remove, I have started to lose my mind, so I turned to a psychologist. Finally, a slight relaxation of quarantine and again Pavlo Gudimov with the "Festival of Naive Art", where my wife Darina and I were members of the film crew… Shooting and communicating with naive artists was a magic kick that prompted me to paint.