- Occupation
Director - Country
Russia
Rastorguev Aleksandr
Tenders' Heat: Wild, Wild Beach
Every morning during the last 25 years hereditary photographer Eugeniy and his camel are on their way to their habitual working place - a beach at the Black Sea shore, a world of NUDE people in all meanings of this word - nominal as well as figurative.The film shows a variety of characters, which shape a unique portrait of the state of the world in which we live. Both irony and melancholy, cleanliness and meanness, love stories and betrayal, life and death are depicted in their development.
I Love You
Pavel Kostomarov and Alexander Rastorguev join forces in this modern experiment, in search of a new film language and new methods. There are three stories of three young male friends from Rostov-on-Don. The authors were casted from fifty open-minded non-professionals who would not be scared to use a camera themselves and who could record their own lives while being totally natural. The directors have chosen those real life stories of people who were interlinked with one another and built up a mosaic of their life episodes, with love as the leitmotief. The result is a fascinating melodramatic story using the dynamics and language of YouTube. It also is an inexpensive movie of the collegial authorship that marks the contemporary era.
I Don't Love You
A girl had a videocamera. She was filming her life. That girl loved a guy. But she left him for another one. When everything seemed to be fine, she turned back to the first guy. Because what that girl is most afraid of is to loose the feeling of love.
Every morning during the last 25 years hereditary photographer Eugeniy and his camel are on their way to their habitual working place - a beach at the Black Sea shore, a world of NUDE people in all meanings of this word - nominal as well as figurative.The film shows a variety of characters, which shape a unique portrait of the state of the world in which we live. Both irony and melancholy, cleanliness and meanness, love stories and betrayal, life and death are depicted in their development.
I Love You
Pavel Kostomarov and Alexander Rastorguev join forces in this modern experiment, in search of a new film language and new methods. There are three stories of three young male friends from Rostov-on-Don. The authors were casted from fifty open-minded non-professionals who would not be scared to use a camera themselves and who could record their own lives while being totally natural. The directors have chosen those real life stories of people who were interlinked with one another and built up a mosaic of their life episodes, with love as the leitmotief. The result is a fascinating melodramatic story using the dynamics and language of YouTube. It also is an inexpensive movie of the collegial authorship that marks the contemporary era.
I Don't Love You
A girl had a videocamera. She was filming her life. That girl loved a guy. But she left him for another one. When everything seemed to be fine, she turned back to the first guy. Because what that girl is most afraid of is to loose the feeling of love.
The Term/Srok
Vladimir Putin's new presidential term began in May 2012. Six months before that Putin's stability has expired. All central places of Moscow became the eyes of the political maelstrom. We record the thoughts and emotions of the protest leaders. We want to understand where they lead us.
Vladimir Putin's new presidential term began in May 2012. Six months before that Putin's stability has expired. All central places of Moscow became the eyes of the political maelstrom. We record the thoughts and emotions of the protest leaders. We want to understand where they lead us.
Aleksandr Rastorguev was born in 1971 in Rostov-on-Don, Russia. Rastorguev studied philology at Rostov State University and graduated from the St. Petersburg State Theater Arts Academy (LGITMiK). He was a director at GTRK “Don-TR” and was the editor of the television station NTV in St. Petersburg. Rastogruev organized the studio Kino in 2001.
Director’s filmography
“Tender’s Hit: Wild, Wild Beach” (2006), “Chistii Chetverg”/aka “Clean Thursday” (2003), “Mammies” (2001)
Awards:
-The International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film / «DOK Leipzig», “Best East Europe Movie” (2003)
-Le Festival International de Films Documentaires «Cinema du reel». Grand-prix (2004)
-International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, Jury Prize (2006)