People of their time

The film aims to unite very different people through such instrument as fashion, to dispel stereotypes, with maximum diversity. Today, despite so

many communication tools, people are putting more and more barriers scattering themselves according to social groups, age categories, type of activity, appearance. As an artist and visionary through my work I often try to imagine a society of the future, where values ​​are preserved, but prejudices and classifications are completely erased. In striving for a flexible stream of consciousness, the visual from the superficial turns into the language of visionaries, the language of the future. The film "People of their time" is a kind of bridge between memories of traditions and sweet rituals of the past to a global vision of the future in its humanity and flexibility.

Credits:

A film by Uldus Bakhtiozina

Composer Zaur Parsiati

DOP Michael Znakov

Set designer Uldus Bakhtiozina

Executive producer Liya Spiridonova

Colour Roman Aleksandrovich

Make up artists Tamara Yavorskaya, Yana Zhikhareva

Hair artists Yuliya Feoktistova, Ekaterina Romanovs

Stylist and Art-director Uldus Bakhtiozina

Written by Uldus Bakhtiozina

Actors: Valentina Yasen, Nina Gernakova, Maksim Petrov, Vladimir Tarasuk, Vlad Tochinov, Lubov Alipova, Irina Bodnar, Vlasta, Nadegda Batoeva

Voice-over Dmitryi Pashkevich

All clothing by MoMo Cashmere

This film is made in collaboration with Moscow based brand MoMo Cashmere. MoMo has an ambition to unite different people, bring love, warm and positives of being yourself and has togetherness with others and all world.

Biography:

Uldus Bakhtiozina (1986, Saint-Petersburg, Russia) 

Leningrad born artist and film director Uldus Bakhtiozina coming from the family with mixed religions and nationalities, expressing her family background through her artistic works. 

Uldus has two degrees: one in politics, the other in graphic design. She studied at West-North Academy of Public administration in Saint-Petersburg (2003-2007) and at University of Arts, London (2007-2009), there she also took a course in street fashion photography at Saint Martins (2008), which introduced her to the world of photography. 

In October 2014, Uldus was named one of the 100 women changing the world for the better by the BBC.
In 2014 Uldus became first Russian speaker in a history of TED conference, gave a talk in March 2014, Vancouver, Canada about her photo project Desperate Romantics. Since the beginning of 2016 Uldus has become Senior TED fellow. In April 2017 Uldus gave her second Ted Talk about her project Conjured Life. Both talks are available at TED.com. They have been viewed over two million times. Uldus also spoke at Conference CDI conference in Mexico, as a finalist of Gifted Citizen Prize. 

In June 2016 Vogue Italy named Bakhtiozina the Best Young Fashion Photographer at PhotoVogue. 

In March 2017 Uldus was a finalist in the Laguna Art Prize.
Uldus has had work exhibited in Russia, England, Germany, Canada, Hong Kong, Belgium, Italy and the United States. 

Uldus’s works are included in permanent collections at the Ruya Foundation of Contemporary Art in Iraq; Faberge Museum in St Petersburg; Tretyakovskaya Gallery in Moscow. 

She is a member of the Royal Society of Arts, London. 

In the 2019/20 Season Uldus made her debut at Royal Opera House as costume and make-up designer and style supervisor for Aisha and Abhaya, a co-production between The Royal Ballet and Rambert. 

In 2020 she has completed her work as a film director, script writer, costume designer and producer for her feature film debut Tzarevna Scaling (Дочь Рыбака). This film was selected for Berlinale 2021. 

Uldus works with big institutions like Royal Opera House and Rambert; museums like Faberge Museum and Tretyakovskaya Gallery, bringing her unique style and love to Russian culture with the fresh breath of contemporary, in the form of a beauty, but with deep research to ethnocentric mythologemes influence into modern collective consiousness. 

Uldus names her style as Tatar Baroque. 

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