Vadim Kostrov Movies

Shot on Mini DV and mostly in Paris, Towards the Light is a personal diary of exile. Through images of light, landscapes and memory, the film...

Errol and Sasha, two young women in their twenties, drift through their lives and the city. A study by fragments of existences waiting to happen.

The film takes us to Nizhny Tagil in September of 2021. Gosha Gordienko, the front man of the rock band Lazy Comet, and Matthew Bedin came together...

Out swimming with friends.

A bleak look into Ural's art underground after the closure of the Narodnaya gallery, probing into the position these artists hold outside the ambit...

Shot in Roscoff and Île-de-Batz, Bretagne, Kostrov and his companions move through the unknown landscape, in displacement. Their contours blur...

Filmed in the latter half of summer, 2019, 'Narodnaya' follows the travails of a garage gallery opened by members of the Nizhniy Tagil underground as...

The sea, the cliffs, the boats. A couple of Russian friends come to visit the filmmaker in exile in France. Glimpsed in the distance or invading the...

On December 31, 2017, there were only a few hours left before the new year, and a friend of mine came to celebrate the new year with one "family" in...

Shifting subtly between figuration and abstraction, with Rothko-esque golds and reds, the hypnotic En Traversée by prolific and steadfastly...

An Ural city of Nizhniy Tagil. Summer is over and a ten years old Vadim is moving to a new district and attends a new school. The last warm days of...

ADA a 23 year old girl. She was born in Nizhny Tagil, studied in Moscow at the University of Journalism and Literature, then she returned to her...

Boys — A short story — about the guys who stay away from the art underground, they just work at the local fast food cafe but in their...

A reflection on freedom, filmed at the end of summer in one of the closed military camps, the full name of which is "ZATO Svobodny". Residents of...

Set in Nizhny Tagil, Russia, Summer journeys nostalgically through the warm middle-Ural summer with eight-year-old Vadim and his half-sister...

The movie was shot at the junction of documentary and fiction films. The film takes the viewer into the late Ural summer of 2019 and immerses us in...

In Glimmering, Vadim Kostrov captures fleeting afternoon light in his backyard. Shot on miniDV and without sound, the film is a silent meditation on...

The film tells about the Moscow art underground through the history of Moscow squats. What does it mean to live today and not adjust at a time when...