Ihor Podolchak
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Podolchak at the movie set Delirium, Lviv, 2008
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Ihor Podolchak 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 | Las Meninas |
| Style | Nonlinear, Psychological, Surrealistic |
| Spouse(s) | Tamara Podolchak (1984-present) |
 Art in SpaceSpace station «Mir», 1993 (Russian) |
 Prints 1983-1997
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Painting 1983-2002
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Mixed technique 1986-2001
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Photography 1987-2004
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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.
Ihor Podolchak was voted as one of the 10 most prominent Ukrainian filmmakers by Forbes Ukraine in 2014
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. From 1984 to 1985 he served in the Soviet Border Troops on the Soviet-Polish border.
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 on January 25, 1993. Artworks of Podolchak can be found in 26 museums and public collections worldwide.
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 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. Overall, it has participated in 27 international film festivals, including 10 competition programs.
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