A HAWK AS BIG AS A HORSE

documentary fairytale, 75 min, 2022 
France

A Hawk as Big as a Horse follows the daily life of Lydia, a queer
ornithologist who lives in Shcherbinka, a remote suburb of Moscow.
As Lydia embarks on remaking David Lynch’s Twin Peaks, she
decides to create Lara, a life-size silicon doll of her favorite actress.

film by Sasha Kulak
cinematography Sasha Kulak, Maryana Drogoveyko, Yakov Mironchev
music Yakov Mironchev
script doctor Olga Polevikova
producer Louis Beaudemont
3D artist Elizaveta Federmesser

Les Steppes Productions, 2022
With the support of Sundance Institute, CNC, in collaboration with ARTE La Lucarne

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Abdel-Wahed El-Wakil: Portrait of an Architect

A film portrait dedicated to the architect Abdel-Wahed El-Wakil. Professor El-Wakil is a leading Islamic architect of our time, winner of the Aga Khan Award and the Driehaus Prize, a student and like-minded intellectual soulmate of the famous architect Hassan Fathy. The film focuses on the role of craftsmen in traditional architecture, the symbolic dimension of religious buildings, and the crisis of modernism.

The film was commissioned as a part of the collateral project of the Qatar Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale.

Co-Directed by Olya Korsun and Furqat Palvan-Zade
Executive producer Fahad Al-Attiyah
Camera Sasha Kulak
Second camera and color grading Fedor Guerlein
Editor Saveliy Sharkov
Sound and music Ivan Merkulov

Caravane Earth, 2022

Sorcerer experiments / 2022

SORCERER (Tallinn, Estonia) experiments with different material manipulation techniques to give new life, meaning and add character to old products.
All designs are upcycled, one-of-a-kind and repurposed.
The photo series invities to relax in basic yoga postures.


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FRENCH DINNER - playtronica x cantouchthis.studio

“French dinner” — video from series of dishes that sound 🎶
A video produced during a residency in Nantes around food and music involving film director Sasha Kulak and sound designer OMMA
dp Sasha Kulak
Mixing HRCLS.tv

PLAYTRONICA, 2022

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