Hush!Russia
2002, 27min.
 Dir./Dir. of Phot./ Edit./Prod.: Viktor Kossakovsky, Compos.: Aleksandr Popov, Sound: Ivan Gusakov, Viktor Kossakovsky.
What the director calls an accidental film, is shot from his apartment window. This is in a way an example of what can envolve right in front of your eyes if you care to look. Kossakovsky filmed a few square metres of a St. Petersburg street during one year. The film always shows this from the same point of view, but with different lenses, at various times of day and in varying styles. Somehow this realistic story transforms realism into the surreal, into the abstract. | Kossakovsky, Viktor  Viktor Kossakovsky (born 1961)
He completed the Higher Courses of Scriptwriters and Directors (Lev Nikolaev’s artist studio, 1988). His very first work, a documentary portrait of the Russian well-known idealist philosopher, Alexey Losev, was awarded a number of prizes. “The Belovs,” telling about a Russian peasant woman, Anna Fedorovna, and her brother, brought Kossakovsky world recognition and more than 20 awards, including the 1993 Yoris Ivens Award. The film “Hush” has been shown in more than 100 countries in the world.
Filmography
Losev (1990), These Days (1991), The Belovs (1993), Wednesday 19.7.1961 (1997), Pavel and Lyalya (1998), Wedding (2000), Kindergarten (2000).
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