Dimitri Lurie

My creative profile consists of diverse genres and visual techniques: imaginative photography, cinematographic poetry, documentaries, short fiction films, experimental non-narrative video and spatial video installations.
I’m not a conventional film director, but rather a playful experimenter and innovator in film language. I’m in search for new expressive forms to reflect phenomena of being and to question deeper meanings in the different aspects of human existence.
I profess filmmaking principles of the spontaneous cinema that captures and conceptualizes daily life and as the starting point for constructing a movie.
This tradition traces its roots to the direct cinema of the revolutionary artist Dziga Vertov with his observational methods.
From the “Kino-Eye” group I have particularly inherited its lyrical use of a documentary footage.
Yet, apparently I’ve become interested in subjects that are imagined rather than directly observable. And here I recall my other inspirer is Sergey Paradjanov’s spiritual, poetical and highly artistic cinema.
Thus, when some of my works reflect the historical or contemporary social processes passed through the prisms of my artistic perception; others seek to represent the intersections between daily life practices and the imagined connections, and to draw out their metaphysical ramifications.
By using photography, film and video as a media, I wish to become an intermediary transmission for the future generations of the universal true.