Alexey Smolin

2025

Sourceless is based on a single short video fragment capturing glints of light on water. Through repetition, layering, and blocks of colour, the image passes through a series of shifting states, revealing an open, almost infinite perspective within a single captured moment.

Alexey Smolin
Russia
2026
4 min
World Premiere

Hydra: Prologue (2024)

Alexey Smolin is an independent filmmaker from Saint Petersburg. In his work, he turns to perception through flickering and repitition. Filming water, reflections, and light, he interrogates the moving image on the border between observation and abstraction.