Iryna Nikolaienko :: Szczecin Film Festival 2020

Iryna Nikolaienko

About the artist

Iryna Nikolaienko was born in Ukraine in 1981.
Graduated from Kiev national university of trade and economics in 2003, and from Diplomatic academy of Ukraine in 2016. She completed professional course of photography in Kiev photography school in 2012.
In 2012 created PhotoArtProject by Iryna Nikolaienko and works as a director till now. Organized and implemented numerous photographic exhibitions and photography, music and publishing projects.
In 2016 created ArtComb Creative Platform and works as a director and producer. With Samsung Ukraine created "Chernobyl 360" virtual reality movie.

Gallery

Films

"The Arch", D: Iryna Nikolaienko, Anton Shatohin, CI: Mikhail Kuzhba, Aleksandr Doroshenko, ED: Valeriy Kozlitinov, UA 2017, 8'12”

This is a movie clip of unique format: a creative group was inspired by the New Safe Confinement - shelter for the IV block of Chernobyl NPP, which has unique nonstandard acoustics inside of it. The author of idea and project's producer Iryna Nikolaienko together with the famous Ukrainian musician Mykyta Rubchenko created a musical composition using the sounds of several unique objects of the Exclusion zone.
The mini-movie and musical single based on the story of the Chernobyl disaster to the present day is about a boy born in the town of Pripyat' who abandoned that place after the accident and returned to the Exclusion zone in order to take part in the construction of the "Shelter-2" confinement many years later.