Uldus Bakhtiozina Explained

Uldus Bakhtiozina
Birth Name:Bakhtiozina Uldus Vildanovna
Birth Place:Leningrad, Soviet Union
Nationality:Russian
Known For:Painting, photography, art, design
Training:University of the Arts London
Movement:Visual arts

Bakhtiozina Uldus Vildanovna is a Russian artist, film director, and photographer.

Early life and education

Uldus was born in Saint Petersburg, (former Leningrad of USSR), in a family with mixed religions and nationalities: a Muslim tatars father, a Christian half Ukrainian mother and a Jewish step-sister. Uldus considers herself as a "child of rebuilding time" Perestroika in Russia, with open minds and free from stereotypes.

She gained her first degree in politics in Russia at West-North Academy of public administration. She left Russia when she was 21 years old and started a new life in London. Her first professional work as a photographer was series of ironic self-portraits, while she was studying in London, at University of the Arts London, Central Saint Martins and London College of Communications

At the beginning of her career she directed videos for German musicians Popnoname – Anna, Change, and Russian singer Ilya Lagutenko Keta's project KETA – Clown.

Career

Despite the modern technology level, she prefers an analog camera instead of digital to catch the nature of an object, show its deepest edges and soul beneath them. For that purposes she uses medium format camera 6x7 and 120 film Kodak and old 35 mm film Leica R3 camera.

In 2014 Uldus became the first Russian speaker at a TED conference, giving a talk in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada about her photo project Desperate Romantics.[1] She gave her second TED talk in 2017.[2]

Uldus also spoke at Conference CDI conference in Mexico, as a finalist of Gifted Citizen Prize.[3]

In October 2014 Uldus was named one of the strongest women of the year, according to the BBC, and took part in BBC debates and TV program 100 women,[4] there her works were shown published at BBC channel. Uldus's photography was published in Vogue Italy, Aesthetica Magazine, C-41 Magazine, and many other international publishers. Bakhtiozina's works widely exhibited in Russia, England, Berlin, Hong-Kong, Singapore, and Milan.

One of her works is now in the collection of Ruya Foundation for Contemporary Culture in Iraq.

In April 2015 Uldus's artwork was selected and nominated in Leica + Vogue Italia with an exhibition in Milan.

Since 28 May 2014 Uldus's photographs have been exhibited in Anna Nova Gallery, Saint-Petersburg, Russia. Four of her works were included in Fabergé Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia collection.

Also, Uldus was awarded as a winner in May 2015 in TOP-50 Noble People of Saint-Petersburg by Sobaka.ru[5] as an artist. In 2021 Uldus was awarded as a film director.[6]

Uldus is author and photographer of serial of photos for the movie "He is dragon" poster (original "Он-дракон".[7])

In the 2019/20 Season, Uldus made her debut at Royal Opera House http://www.roh.org.uk/people/uldus-bakhtiozina as a costume and make-up designer and style supervisor for Aisha and Abhaya,[8] a co-production between The Royal Ballet and Rambert.

In 2020 she has completed her work as a film director, scriptwriter, costume designer and producer for her feature film debut Tzarevna Scaling (original "Дочь рыбака"[9])

Film's premiere took place at Zerkalo International Film Festival under the name of Andrei Tarkovsky.

In 2021 Uldus's debut feature film Tzarevna Scaling (original "Дочь рыбака") was selected for Berlinale at Berlinale Forum section.[10]

During 2021 the film Tzarevna Scaling took part at Shanghai International Film Festival,Riga International Film Festival, Raindance Film Festival and also New Horizons IFF (Poland), /slash film festival (Austria,)Luststreifen Basel Queer-Feminist FF (Switzerland), Olhar de Cinema Curitiba International Film Festival (Brazil), Festival Nouveau Cinéma (CA).

Exhibitions

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: TED conference 2014. ted.com. 14 March 2014.
  2. Web site: TED conference 2017. ted.com. 24 April 2017.
  3. Web site: Gifted Citizen Prize. podercivico.org.mx. 4 November 2014.
  4. News: Who are the 100 Women 2014?. BBC News. 26 October 2014. 26 October 2014.
  5. Web site: Объявлены победители премии "ТОП 50. Самые знаменитые люди Петербурга" . 8 June 2015 .
  6. https://www.sobaka.ru/fashion/heroes/131378 Sobaka.ru Cover with Uldus
  7. Web site: Яндекс .
  8. Web site: Technical error .
  9. Web site: Яндекс .
  10. https://www.berlinale.de/en/archive-selection/archive-2021/programme/detail/202104202.html Berlinale Forum section
  11. Web site: Uldus Bakhtiozina, Brandreal hangover. thebestofrussia.ru. 5 May 2011.
  12. Web site: Uldus Bakhtiozina, Vorurteile. gaze-gallery.com/. 5 May 2013.
  13. Web site: Uldus Bakhtiozina, Desperate romantics. annanova-gallery.ru/en/. 26 September 2013.
  14. Web site: Uldus Bakhtiozina, Russ Land . 28 May 2015.
  15. Web site: The artist knight group exhibition. 11 July 2017.
  16. Web site: Uldus Bakhtiozina, Russ Land . 17 May 2017.
  17. Web site: Uldus Bakhtiozina, Russ Land . 7 November 2017.