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4. The Light of White Sea. Film 1 / Свет Белого моря. Фильм первый
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Documental dilogy, DV-cam, 26 min, GAMAUN 2005
Screenplay: Nastia Tarasova, Konstantin Zakashanskii,
Director: Nastia Tarasova, Camera: Irina Shatalova, Music: Andrei Zelenskii, Producer: Igor Gelein

It was great love... His beloved woman was the lighthouse technician on the island Bolshoi Zhuzhmui in The White Sea.
When the love ended she escaped to the mainland. Aleksey waited for her for 11 years mastering the profession of lighthouse chief.
Not long ago he found out he would be fired.

film 2 is here: vimeo.com/734321
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  • Kazbek Mamitov 4 months ago
    Любовь лечит ...и калечит...
    Эх... выучится бы на начальника маяка...)) Красотища там какая!
  • shatlarina 4 months ago
    Казбек, спасибо Вам за Ваше время!
    Да, Вы правы, красотища, да жизнь-то все ж тяжелая у маячника...
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  • w.pasman 4 months ago
    Interesting how this plot develops.
    What does the final titling say?
  • shatlarina 4 months ago
    Pasman, thank you for your time and interest!

    It is very difficult to do a documental dilogy. It was movie debut for our crew and for the crew of the second film. After that we understood how it's difficult to make a complete history by two different shooting groups. This was incredible experience for us, even if we didn't get a full-fledged dilogy.
  • olivier auverlau 2 months ago
    HI, shatlarina ... i enjoy very much your film ...
    I am Director of photography , documentalist my wife is filmdirector , documentalist too ...
    very good film , will see more , i like the photography ...
    we have done many documentaries with my wife, the last one, we do in cuba during 14 years ... you can see the trailer on my videos
    good luck for yours next projects ...
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  • Joe 4 months ago
    Interesting how the mood of the video was enhanced by the darker scenes towards the end of the storyline. Was that a deliberate choice? Nicely done.
  • shatlarina 4 months ago
    Joe, thank you very much for your attention and kind words.
    Perhaps, this scene was shooting by such way semi-deliberate. It can be said that there were more intuition than course of scenario. While we had already knew at the moment that those images would be used somewhere at the end of the film.
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  • You guys are seriously the best.
  • shatlarina 4 months ago
    Wow, Karen, thank you! :)
    We are confused.
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  • Panoramatic 4 months ago
    I enjoyed that movie very much! I will look at film two later.
    Those dark tones! Beautiful. When he turns the boat into the darkness, almost no light left. Or the lighting of the cigarette. And when the girls get the washing from the line! You understand light! Good that you carry a camera!
    This is a very inspirational project! A simple plot, but a pivotal moment. Beautiful.
  • shatlarina 4 months ago
    Thank you very much for the kind words!
    In this film too many were built on intuition.
  • Panoramatic 4 months ago
    Intuition is so underrated. Intuition is for me the most important source!
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  • lubov pshe 3 months ago
    Вы меня удивляете своими фильмами все больше и больше. Даже не могу пока переварить увиденное. И оторваться тоже не могу!

    Удивительная судьба у Алексея! Даже не верится, что все это - правда.
    Быстрее смотреть вторую часть!
  • Nastia Tarasova 3 months ago
    Lubov, спасибо за Ваш интерес!
    Мы рады, что Вам понравилась наша дилогия!
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  • Ein 3 months ago
    Always floored at how surreal the feeling is when I watch the documentaries by you and your associates. You capture people in a way that is almost unreal. How did you go about filming this man and his life? How long was the shooting process? I am really interested to understand your ideologies on shooting documentary.
  • Nastia Tarasova 3 months ago
    Ein, thank you very much for such assessment of our work!

    We held on the islands 3 weeks at whole.

    Documentary heroes are, indeed, as actors playing the same movie. With their help we can express our thoughts. A drama laws are the same. But documentary film is more difficultly, because heroes are real. We try to merged with them, be next constantly, every minute. But we never know exactly whether will a hero express the message which we have conceived. And more often than not, good material is a result of good luck and intuition.

    Do not shoot squalid people, and allow a minimum obscene swearing in our movies - is one of the parts of our ideology. :) We oppose this, but it is so popular in our country now, unfortunately.
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  • Emmanuel Tenenbaum 3 months ago
    Shatlarina, Nastia, Olga, I dont know what to say...

    Very often, I am impressed by some videos on Vimeo because they look professional. But this work is not only professionnal, it is also BEAUTIFUL, POETIC, giving emotions. The shots, this man, the rythm, I am really touched.
  • Nastia Tarasova 3 months ago
    Thank you, Emmanuel! It is pleasure to hear that you found our movie as professional. Although it was the first our work made in a professional studio, not in the institute. This film is very valuable for us, despite the fact that we see a lot of shortcomings in it now.
  • olivier auverlau 2 months ago
    yes it is poesy ...
    do you want participate in the next EDOC in ecuador
    (the best and only one documentary filmfestival in ecuador ... ?)
    bests, olivier . Belgian DP and documentalist living in ecuador
  • shatlarina 1 month ago
    Thank you very much, Olivier! This is very valuable for us.
    We would be very pleased to take part at a such film festival!
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  • Peter K 3 months ago
    Thanks for posting. Excellent camera work.
  • shatlarina 3 months ago
    Thank you, Peter!
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  • SPY 3 months ago
    There was something tied well together between Aleksy (if i'm not mistaken) and the machine. Watching how their time had come to an end of sorts...they both still work but no longer serve their purpose. I couldn't separate the light house and Aleksy...one and the same.

    Enjoyed it very much!
  • shatlarina 3 months ago
    Thank you, SPY! You are right. The fate of the lighthouse and fate of Alexei grown into one for 11 years . Moreover, it is similar to the fate of the entire region of the White Sea.
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  • miki zlatkovic 2 months ago
    daragije moji devuski balsoj privet s begama,mogu vam skazat sto dla mena bilo balsoje udavolstvo paznakomit vas,vasije zapisi ocen harosije,linar kazdim dnom sebe lucse custvujet,nadejus sto isco raz strecimse,miki
  • shatlarina 2 months ago
    Ooooo, Miki!!! Kak zdorovo, chto vi napisali! Privet vam iz Pol'shi! Spasibo, chto chto-to posmotreli iz nashih filmov! Peredavaite priveti Marselu, Sifetu i, konechno, Linaru! Mi za nego radi, bespokoimsya, postoyanno pomnim.
    Mi takge beskonechno radi znakonstvu. Sobiraemsya vskore priehat'!
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  • miki zlatkovic 2 months ago
    a mi budem vas s balsim udavolstvam strecat,a linar kazdij den stajot vsjo lucse i lucse,ja pocti kazdij den idu kjemu,jesli ja ne pasol tuda on srazu zvonit menja sto bi ja ne zabil,nu daragije devuski mi vas zdjom i celujuem,vsem privet ot nas,miki
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