In July, September, and December of 2023, Spectacle watched the seasons pass across nine features made over the course of the first few creatively explosive years of Russian expat Vadim Kostrov’s forays into his unique approach to personal filmmaking. While unable to travel to the United States during these screenings, Kostrov generously stayed up into the wee hours in his current home of Paris to call in the theater and discuss a stunning bouquet of work that captured the atmospheric shifts and burgeoning lives of idealistic young artists, mostly within his home city Nizhny Tagil.
Just after one year in which we held screenings of Kostrov’s second piece in his incomplete seasons tetralogy, FALL, it comes with great delight to announce that the filmmaker will make his first —and no doubt far from last— in-person appearance at the goth bodega to present three pivotal and seasonally-aligned short films.
STILL FREE (set in the late summer) along with I SAW and THE LAST LOOK OF AUTUMN (both in the fall) represent various departures, epilogues, and transitions in the life of Kostrov and the friends that make up his pool of subjects and collaborators.
This will be the United States premieres of I SAW and STILL FREE, and the world premiere of THE LAST LOOK OF AUTUMN!