my last film LINES is selected in shorts competition at PÖFF 2026
the Premiere will take place on:
10th November, Tuesday
at 18:00
in Kino Artis, Tallinn
it will also be shown
15th November, Sunday
at 13:00
Apollo Kino Plaza, Tallinn
IN TWO, IN PAIRS
IN TWO, IN PAIRS
https://vimeo.com/1183495835
SYNOPSIS
with "In Two, In Pairs," an experimental film,
we explore the duality of existence and the nature of connection.
The film meditates on pairs, touch, movement, and the space
between "me" and "you." As it questions why things seldom
come in fives and what it means to move forward, it delves into
themes of intimacy and separation. The dialogue reflects
on the perpetual search for connection, often in pairs,
sometimes in fours, but almost never in fives.
DIRECTORS: Eleonore de Montesquiou and Viktorija Ilioska
state: in progress
length: 7 min. 23
color
HDV
language of texts: English
MUSIC AND WORDS: Viktorija Ilioska
IMAGES: Eleonore de Montesquiou
LOCATION: Marineterrein, Amsterdam, 2024
IN TWO, IN PAIRS was filmed in the frame of the project
"We don't want to be stars (but parts of constellations)",
co-funded by Suns and Stars (NL)
the European Union and
European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA)
PHOENIX KATJA
SHEROES POSTCARDS
A series of 14 postcards
colorful
joyful
feminist
and beautiful
illustrations: Eleonore de Montesquiou
Russian / english
text: words by Ekaterina Grafova, Olga Tüvi and Olga Afanasyeva
graphic design: Johanna Ruukholm
33 monsters - Тридцать-три урода
a novel by Lydia Zinovieva Annibal (1907, Russia)
presented by Eléonore de Montesquiou (edition and illustrations)
with Jenny Zinovieff (bibliography, translation and iconography), Peter Zinovieff (music),
Lucy Railton (music), Varvara Toropkova (illustrations), Johanna Ruukholm (graphic design)
176 Pages
23 x 17 cm
Russian original / English translation
illustrated
Distributor: argobooks, Berlin
ISBN 978-3-948678-18-0
33 Monsters, Тридцать-три урода, by Lydia Zinovieva-Annibal (Petersburg, 1907) is a young woman’s intimate diary. It is written to another woman, Vera, her lover. Vera is older than the narrator and forces her to sit for 33 male painters who will paint 33 versions of her beautiful body, the 33 monsters. Vera initiated this search for truth, the exposure of her lover’s beauty to men and to art. Art and life as an artwork will destroy each other; Vera will not survive this offering.
The short novel, 33 Monsters was one of the few works of its day to openly discuss lesbianism.
Back then immediately banned, then judged as not obscene, it was published in 1907.
The author: Lydia Zinovieva-Annibal Lydia Zinovieva-Annibal (1866-1907), first Russian feminist, passionate and excessive woman, rebellious child in a Petersburg aristocratic family, was an emblematic figure of symbolist circles in Petersburg in the early 1900s. With Viatcheslav Ivanov, her second husband with whom she was searching for a new ideal form of open love relationships, Lydia organised the famous Wednesday meetings in their home the „Tower“ where Petersburg intellectuals and artists of the Silver Age gathered at the turn of the century. Lydia Zinovieva died of scarlet fever at the age of 41, shortly after the 33 Monsters and the Tragic Menagery were published, the last of her four novels.
EKSPERIMENT KATJA -festivals
Premiere: 24th Jihlava film festival, 2020
Semi finalist: Dumbo, Brooklyn, USA, 2021
Finalist: Short shot fest, Moscow, 2021
EKSPERIMENT KATJA
EKSPERIMENT KATJA
Première: 24th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival
17 min.
17 min.
b&w
music: Lucy Railton
with: Ekaterina Grafova
language: Russian with English subtitles
location: Narva, Estonia
------- short synopsis:
Katja was born in 1992, an experiment generation for the new Republic of Estonia. She is floating, neither attached to Estonia, nor to Russia. Like Little Red Riding hood, she has freed herself from experiments and fears imposed on her. The film suggests several metaphors to describe the trauma of the displaced - from Little Red Riding Hood to the keyword of experiment.
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