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Eugene Kotlyarenko Refuses to Make Second-Screen Movies

MovieMaker Magazine
Story by Tim Molloy
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Filmmaker Eugene Kotlyarenko pushes the boundaries of cinematic experience, blending screens, texts, and new forms of voyeurism to challenge how we engage with movies in the digital age.
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  • In his latest film 'The Code', Kotlyarenko packs the screen with FaceTimes, DMs, spyware recordings and intrusive documentary footage to track the emotional tug-of-war between a sexless couple in pandemic isolation, highlighting our role as 'anxious, ceaseless auteurs' of our own lives.
  • Kotlyarenko's goal is to 'redefine what mise-en-scene can be' and create 'new forms of dialectical viewing', scratching our 'new itches' of constant scrolling, typing and swiping on screens so that we can 'lean back, relax and immerse ourselves in cinema' once more.
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Eugene Kotlyarenko, Joe Keery, Dasha Nekrasova, Peter Vack, RLJE Films, Spree, The Code
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