- Occupation
Producer, Director - Country
Canada
Lahusen Thomas
The Photographer
The Photographer is Evgeny Kashirin (1949-2007). From the age of 19, Kashirin captured his time and place, the central Russian province of Riazan, through the lens of his black and white camera. Our film tells (t)his story through the words of his students and acquaintances, his photographs, and footage of the photographer's own projected film compilations accompanied by his haunting blank verse. Together they take the form of a triptych: a dying rural life, a train, and the story of a man who traded his wife for a marble statue of Judith.
The Photographer is Evgeny Kashirin (1949-2007). From the age of 19, Kashirin captured his time and place, the central Russian province of Riazan, through the lens of his black and white camera. Our film tells (t)his story through the words of his students and acquaintances, his photographs, and footage of the photographer's own projected film compilations accompanied by his haunting blank verse. Together they take the form of a triptych: a dying rural life, a train, and the story of a man who traded his wife for a marble statue of Judith.
Producer, director, cinematographer, editor. Teaches Russian/Soviet cultural history and film at the University of Toronto. Trained in film directing, editing, and camera work, he has been involved in the past years in several film projects, including the history of the Soviet Far East and China, Soviet and post-Soviet film distribution and exhibition, as well as Central-Asian cultural and social issues. He is also director of Chemodan Films, Toronto, Canada.
Chemodan Films
1409-438 Richmond Street West
M5V 3S6 Toronto
1409-438 Richmond Street West
M5V 3S6 Toronto