Boris Yukhananov
Boris Yurievich Yukhananov (Russian: Борис Юрьевич Юхананов; born 30 September 1957; Moscow) is a Russian director of theatre, video, cinema and TV, a theatre educator and theorist. He is currently the Artistic Director of the Stanislavsky Electrotheatre, Moscow. He was a pioneering figure in Russia’s underground art movement in the 1980s and 1990s and was one of the founders of the Soviet Parallel Cinema movement, which provided an alternative cinema to that which was produced by the state. His recent major works include a radical interpretation of Maurice Maeterlinck’s The Blue Bird, the opera serial Drillalians and the two-part The Constant Principle. Founder of the new processualism movement, a methodology and artistic strategy that posits theatre as the focal point of all forms of art involving every aspect of time, whether it be cinema, a musical concert or performance art.
Tractor Drivers 2 (1992)
The remake of the original 1939 "Tractor Drivers"... Same heroes, but totally different times. (more)
The remake of the original 1939 "Tractor Drivers"... Same heroes, but totally different times. (more)
Leningrad. November (1990)
After a ten year long stay in West Germany, Max returns to the Soviet Union to visit his deadly ill father in Leningrad. There he finds a friend in a man who calls himself Igor and he begins a love-affair with the deafmute Lena. Around Max' relationship to his ... (more)
After a ten year long stay in West Germany, Max returns to the Soviet Union to visit his deadly ill father in Leningrad. There he finds a friend in a man who calls himself Igor and he begins a love-affair with the deafmute Lena. Around Max' relationship to his ... (more)
Ivan the Fool (2002)
A science fiction take on the classic folk character Ivan the fool/idiot. (more)
A science fiction take on the classic folk character Ivan the fool/idiot. (more)
Zenboxing (1998)
How to defeat a warrior who has not yet been born, if you have already died? Trendy style, paradoxical language, paranormal phenomena, ancient China, black humor, the Internet, love, kickboxing fights - the real magic of ZENBOXING. (more)
How to defeat a warrior who has not yet been born, if you have already died? Trendy style, paradoxical language, paranormal phenomena, ancient China, black humor, the Internet, love, kickboxing fights - the real magic of ZENBOXING. (more)
A rare Aleynikov brothers film from 1990. (more)
Dominus (1990)
Anthology film in two parts based on Ray Bradbery's stories "The Black Ferris" and "The Scythe". (more)
Anthology film in two parts based on Ray Bradbery's stories "The Black Ferris" and "The Scythe". (more)
The Mad Prince: The Japanese (1988)
The basis for the making of this film was a TV show to which many figures of the «youth culture» were invited. Boris Yukhananov turned this into a video project. This plot recurs twice in the film, forming a compositional counterbalance, at the beginning in the ... (more)
The basis for the making of this film was a TV show to which many figures of the «youth culture» were invited. Boris Yukhananov turned this into a video project. This plot recurs twice in the film, forming a compositional counterbalance, at the beginning in the ... (more)
Pinocchio (2022)
Boris Yukhananov's film triptych based on Andrey Vishnevsky's play "Pinocchio's Mad Angel". (more)
Boris Yukhananov's film triptych based on Andrey Vishnevsky's play "Pinocchio's Mad Angel". (more)
The Mad Prince: Fassbinder (1988)
This film was shot in 1988. The main action takes place in a rock group's studio during the visit of a few acolytes from Theatre Theatre. It is all served up in connection with Fassbinder «s notion of Antitheatre. The theme of the “mad prince” in actors» ... (more)
This film was shot in 1988. The main action takes place in a rock group's studio during the visit of a few acolytes from Theatre Theatre. It is all served up in connection with Fassbinder «s notion of Antitheatre. The theme of the “mad prince” in actors» ... (more)