Alexander Isaenko
Ukrainian videoartist
Interview: 10 questions
1. Tell me something about your life and the educational background.
Today my work consists mostly of video and photography. I like mixed media, that’s why I have big interest to try myself in this direction.
2. When, how and why you started filming?
I start from painting, then collage, and later – photography. Photo-shooting became a new form of self-expression, and the video has the same value today.
3. What kind of subjects have your films?
They are about a man, space, a man in the landscape and the landscape in a man.
4. How do you develop your films, do you follow certain principles, styles etc?
I try to create something whole, to create emotional experience of the individual, the condition of the landscape, day or a minute, hyper-clean, non-literary substance from image and sound.
5. Tell me something about the technical equipment you use.
I shoot with the digital camera. Then make video from photos.
6. What are the chances of the digital video technologies for creating art using “moving images†generally, and for you personally?
I have some problems with the aesthetics of HD video, and more specifically with the plastic picture, but generally I plan to solve this deficiency for myself in future.
7. How do you finance your films?
I am open to dialogue with investors.
8. Do you work individually as a video artist/film maker or do you work in a team? if you have experience in both, what is the difference, what do you prefer?
IN SILICO project, created by me, has fully lived up its name – it was attended by various musicians and artists. There was no constant team in a project for the flesh flux of ideas. I also worked individually. I am interested in both of these organisms with different pulses.
9. Who or what has a lasting influence on your film/video making?
Tarkovsky, Paradjanov, Bergman, Derren, Vertov.
10. What are your future plans or dreams as a film/video maker?
I plan to search for the new themes and forms for video and photography, and to create the full-length movie.