Vladimir Kozlov - Making political no-budget cinema

Kitchen Conversations

# 60 - in conversation with Belarusian filmmaker and writer, Vladimir Kozlov.

Born in Mogilev, an industrial city in what is now Belarus, Vladimir Kozlov grew up amidst the unraveling of the Soviet Union. His formative years in the suburbs were marked by the chaos of the early 1990s—a time of unbridled freedom, wild capitalism, and rampant crime. Moving from Mogilev to Minsk and eventually to Moscow, Vladimir has dedicated his life to unpacking the legacy of the Soviet past.

Through his writing and cinematographic work, he delves deep into the cultural and social fabric of Russian and Belarusian society, asking pressing questions: Where did we go wrong? What did we overlook, leading us back to a totalitarian and authoritarian reality?

Podcast created in collaborating with Belarusian Filmmakers Network (BFN)

Films by Vladimir Kozlov:

Number 10 (2013) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WpAKih8Ak0

Whatever We Want (2019) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REZpHrzQH0o&t=10s

Three Comrades (2020) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chU-CDMLSz4&t=649s

Summer of '89 (2022) https://vodblisk.northernlightsff.com/summer_of_89

Other references:

Artist YouTube https://www.youtube.com/vkozlov

Artist Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/v_kozlov/

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