Ihor Podolchak

Ihor Podolchak
Podolchak at the movie set Delirium, Lviv, 2008
Born	Ihor Podolchak (1962-04-09) April 9, 1962 Lviv, Ukrainian SSR, USSR
Residence	Lviv, Kyiv
Alma mater	The Lviv National Academy of Arts
Occupation	Film director, screenwriter, producer, painter, printmaker, photographer
Years active	1984 – present
Notable work(s)	Las Meninas
Style	Nonlinear, Psychological, Surrealistic
Spouse(s)	Tamara Podolchak (1984-present)

Ihor Podolchak (Ukrainian: Ігор Подольчак) (born April 9, 1962) is a Ukrainian filmmaker and visual artist. He is a co-founder of the creative association Masoch Fund.^[1]

Early life

Podolchak was born in Lviv, Ukrainian SSR, USSR (now Ukraine). He graduated from Lviv Academy of Fine Arts (then Lviv State Institute of Applied and Decorative Arts) with distinction in 1984.

Visual arts

The artist's book Jacob Bohme was awarded as World's Best Book (Bronze Medal) by Stiftung Buchkunst Frankfurt am Main at Frankfurt Book Fair. One of his 24 personal exhibitions was the first art exhibition ever to be held in space, at space station Mir^[2] on January 25, 1993. Artworks of Podolchak can be found in 26 museums and public collections worldwide.

Cinema

Both films of Podolchak have common characteristic features: departure from narrative, anthropology of enclosed worlds, elaborated composition of frame, unusual shooting angles. The spaces of Las Meninas and Delirium are similarly dense, difficult for movement, tiresome both for the characters moving within them and the viewers watching them. This reflects the time of “the end of history” with its somnambulism, impotence, morbidity and hopelessness.

Las Meninas

Poster Las Meninas

Poster Delirium

Las Meninas is Podolchak's debut full-length film. He wrote, directed and produced it. The film had a world premiere at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in the competition program on January 25, 2008.^[3] Overall, it has participated in 27 international film festivals, including 10 competition programs.

Delirium

Delirium is Podolchak's second full-length feature. Its script^[4] is based on the story Inductor by the Ukrainian writer and journalist Dmytro Belyanskyi. The film’s production lasted during 2008–2010. For the first time fragments of the film were demonstrated in 2012 on the 45th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in the program Films in production. New full-length films from Central and Eastern Europe.^[5] After the prerelease screenings, Ukrainian film critics compared the second film of Podolchak to the works of Alain Robbe-Grillet, Pedro Costa and Nikos Nikolaidis.

Position 5 in Top-10 Ukrainian films of 2012 by «Афіша@Mail.Ru».^[6]

Selected prizes and nominations

Prizes:

• 2013 «First Prize»,^[7] Baghdad International Film Festival, Iraq
• 1995 «Triennaleprize»,^[8] 11th Norway International Print Triennial, Fredrikstad
• 1994 «Walter Tiemann Preis», Verein zur Förderung von Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig e.V. an der Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig
• 1990 «Latvian Artist Union Prize», Triennial of miniature graphic art, Riga
• 1990 «1st Award for graphics», 5th Annual International Art Exhibition, Marietta, USA
• 1989 «Diploma», International Biennial of Art Impreza, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine
• 1988 «Prix Ex Aequo»,^[9] 12th International Print Biennial, Cracow
• 1987 «Honorable Medal»,^[10] Small Graphic Forms, Lodz

Nominations:

• 2013 «Best Director»^[11] Director's Week Competition, Fantasporto, Oporto International Film Festival, Porto
• 2009 «Prize»,^[12] Trieste Film Festival
• 2008 «Tiger»,^[13] 37th International Film Festival Rotterdam
• 2008 «Prize FIPRESCI», 7th Transilvania International Film Festival, Cluj Napoca
• 2008 «Prize»,^[14] 16th Artfilm International Film Festival, Slovakia

Sources

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External video

Art in Space Space station «Mir», 1993 (Russian)

External images

Prints 1983-1997

Painting 1983-2002

Mixed technique 1986-2001

Photography 1987-2004

• 100 Імен. Сучасне мистецтво України періоду Незалежності. (100 names. Contemporary Ukrainian Art from the Independence Time.) Київ: Видавництво «Мысль», 2008 ISBN 978-966-8527-62-3 (Ukrainian)
• Bang-Heun C. Igor Podolchak. Catalog. Seoul: Gaain Gallery, 1992
• Böhme Jakob; Podolczak Igor; Tomkowski Jan. Artist's Book. Lodz: Correspondance des Arts II, 1993. OCLC 245835402
• Callaghan B. Fifteen Years in Exile. Toronto: Exile Editions, 1992 ISBN 1-55096-025-3
• Dyurych I,; Podolchak, I. Art in Space. Special Edition for São Paulo Biennial. Кyiv: Masoch Fund, 1994
• Ewins, R.; Colless E. Igor Podolchak. Ukrainian Printmaker. Catalog. Hobart: University of Tasmania, 1991
• Grenzgänger: acht Künstler aus der Ukraine. Linz: Büro für Kulturelle Auslandsbeziehungen des Landes Oberösterreich, 1994. ISBN 3-901246-09-6
• Matuszak, G.; Wozniak, Taras. Igor Podolchak. Lodz: Biuro Wystaw artystycznych, 1988
• Mikhaylovska O.; Podolchak, I.; Taranenko, A.Corpus delicti : post-erotic art photography. Prague: Masoch Fund, 1998. ISBN 978-966-7167-16-5
• Raine, C.; Podolczak, Igor. Gilgamesh. Lodz, Poland : Book Art Museum, 1995. OCLC 82268972
• Rosiak, M. Igor Podolczak. Grafika. Catalog. Poznan: Galeria'72, 1989
• Rudel, J. Apocalypses: Rencontres Du Manege Royal.. La Garenne-Colombes: Editions de l'Espace européen, 1991 ISBN 2-7388-0139-0
• Voznyak, T. Ihor Podolchak. Catalog. Lviv: Ukrainian Independent Center of Contemporary Art, 1991. OCLC 224935917 (Ukrainian)
• Dyurych, I.; Podolchak, Ihor. Последний еврейский погром (The Last Jewish Pogrom). Kyiv: Masoch Fund, 1995 (Russian)
• Dyurych, Ihor; Podolchak, I.; Тistol, О. Igor Podolchak : immoral-immortal. Lviv: Masoch Fund, 1999. ISBN 966-537-115-0
• Mистецька мапа України: Львів — живопис, графіка, скульптура. (Art Map of Ukraine: Lviv - painting, prints, sculpture.) Kyiv: I︠U︡velir-pres, 2008. ISBN 978-966-96579-4-7 (Ukrainian)

External links

• Ihor Podolchak at the Internet Movie Database
• Ihor Podolchak at the YouTube
• Ihor Podolchak at the Scribd
• Ihor Podolchak at the Issuu
• WorldCat Identities

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