GES-2 (18+)
Russia – Italy, 2021, colour, 78 min.
Director: Nastya Korkia
Director: Nastya Korkia
In 2014, V–A–C Foundation (the owner – Russian oligarch, one of the richest men in Russia, according to Forbes, Leonid Mikhelson) acquired the 20,000 sq. m former power plant, GES-2 in the center of Moscow right in front of the Kremlin, tasking the Renzo Piano Building Workshop with its transformation into a cultural institution. Over the next five years, the cameras followed the construction works along with the cultural initiatives of the Foundation.
Nastya Korkia
Nastya Korkia
is a Moscow-based filmmaker. Having graduated in philology from the Moscow State University, she learned directing at the Moscow School of New Cinema with Bakur Bakuradze, and being a documentary soldier with Werner Herzog in Cuba. Her latest documentary film «GES-2» premiered at the 78th Venice Film Festival in 2021. Her previous works were screened at DOK Leipzig, True/False, Sheffield DocFest, Beat Film Festival, Metropolitan Museum, NY, among others.
FILMOGRAPHY
Dramatic and Mild, 2018; Estoy Feliz, 2019; GES-2, 2021; Almost Spring, 2021.
Russia – Italy, 2021, colour, 78 min.
Director: Nastya Korkia
Director: Nastya Korkia
In 2014, V–A–C Foundation (the owner – Russian oligarch, one of the richest men in Russia, according to Forbes, Leonid Mikhelson) acquired the 20,000 sq. m former power plant, GES-2 in the center of Moscow right in front of the Kremlin, tasking the Renzo Piano Building Workshop with its transformation into a cultural institution. Over the next five years, the cameras followed the construction works along with the cultural initiatives of the Foundation.