Film director, artist, and photographer. He was born in 1961 in Leningrad . He was one of the leaders of the "Parallel Cinematography" movement in the 1980s. In 1984 he founded an independent film studio "Mzhalalafilm" and led the group of young vanguard authors who called themselves necrorealists. This movement included literature, photography and paintings as well as cinematography. It was characterized by spontaneity and the poignancy of man's primitive initiation rituals and simple merry rowdiness. In spite of the threatening name, necrorealism is an art form that does not inspire fear. On the contrary, it is an art form that abolishes social taboos and takes the civilized consciousness into the sphere of liberated instincts.
In the 1990s, Yufit began to shoot full-length films instead of short films. Brutal expression is replaced by thoughtfulness and delving deep into the natural sciences. The language of the film becomes more complicated but does not lose its connection with his earlier film experiences. Eugeny Yufit is the director of the films "Werewolf Orderlies" (1984), " Woodcutter " (1985), " Spring " (1987), "Suicide Monsters" (1988), " Fortitude " (1988), "Warriors of Heaven" (1989), " Freedom " (1994), " The Wooden Room " (1995), "Silver Heads" (1998). He participated in International Film Festivals in Locarno , New York , Moscow , Rotterdam , Toronto , Montreal . Eugeny Yufit's films and photo works are in the collections of Netherlands 's Cinematography Museum , the Museum of Modern Art in New York , the State Russian Museum.

Spring
1987, 10 min.

?Spring? demonstrates the precision of Yevgeniy Yufit's structural and editing techniques. It was conceived as a manifesto of necrorealism. The film combines intuition, an interest in the unconscious mind and shock tactics (traditions of the 1920's avant-garde) with social issues of Soviet Russia.

Suicide Monsters
1988, 5 min.

The irrationality of the human psyche, sadomasochism and suicide are the leitmotivs of this film. The documentary footage of airplanes and pilots--symbols of courage and honor--become an unexpected counterpoint to the main structure of the film. The combination of documentary footage and poetic storytelling with severe northern setting reinforce the ascetic atmosphere of Suicide Monsters and give its self-destructive characters heroic and noble appearance.

Werewolf Orderlies
1984, 3 min.

A young sailor descends from a local train. He goes to a nearby forest, which is full of strange men in medical uniforms behaving in an absurd and eccentric manner. The sailor falls under their influence and masochistically gives himself up to them only to be disemboweled by the werewolf orderlies.

Wooden Room
1995, 65 min.

An experimental black-and-white meditation on the complex, ever-changing relationship between a filmmaker and his subject matter. The narrative, which is devoid of any conventional plot, seems entirely based on the performers' improvisation. But there are enough clues to suggest that the film is meant as a cautionary tale about artists who get too intimately involved with their material. Indeed, the filmmaker gets so close to his recorded event that at the end he loses all detachment and himself becomes an object and a victim.

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