Nikita Baranov

2025

The film uses 80mm check tape as a analog cinematic medium. The movie demonstrates the peculiarities of the image produced by the thermal printer.The noise of the coarse grain becomes a separate expressive means and even the main character.Traveling through the gloomy images that are on the verge of discernibility the audience and its imagination becomes the basis of the narrative and the film itself.The film replicates the Rorschach test effect, where the viewer can perceive their own image within abstract forms. This effect became the foundation for creating the film.

Nikita Baranov
Russia
2025
14 min
No premiere

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Born in 1995 in Moscow. From 2016 to 2019, studied at the Moscow School of New Cinema in the editing directing workshop of Ilya Tomashevich. From 2018 to 2022, worked as a film editor on both fiction and documentary films. Since 2021, has been developing the “Thermo Cinema” project, in which receipt paper is used as a medium for a sequence of frames. Creates films using this technique.