The Train Stop

Polustanok

Russia

2000

25 Min

Black and White

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Speeding trains slice through the silence of the small train stop. The whistle on the locomotive and the thunder of the wheels disappear into the night, but fail to wake up people at the station. People just continue to sleep. What do they wait for? What will wake them up? —loznitsa.com

Director

Sergei Loznitsa

Sergei Loznitsa was born on September, 5th 1964 in Baranovichi (Belarus, former USSR). He grew up in Kiev, and in 1987 graduated from the Kiev Polytechnic with a degree in Applied Mathematics. In 1987-1991 he worked as a scientist at the Kiev Institute of Cybernetics, specializing in artificial intelligence research. He also worked as a translator from Japanese.

In 1997 he graduated from the Russian State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK), where he studied feature film making.

Sergei Loznitsa has been making documentary films since 1996, and he has directed 13 documentaries. He has received numerous international and national awards, including festival prizes in Karlovy Vary, Leipzig, Oberhausen, Paris, Madrid, Toronto, Jerusalem, St-Petersburg, as well as the Russian National Film awards “Nika” and “Laurel”. Sergei Loznitsa’s montage film “Blockade” (2005) is based on the archive footage of besieged Leningrad.

Loznitsa’s feature debut “MY JOY” (2010) premiered… read more

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23May11

sleep looks like an inner prayer.figures gathered in a theatre of gestures meant for nobody.contours diffusely haloed like in a film by sokurov.in sleep,like in deepest sorrow,man is alone and shut for the world as a bud closing for the night.no solidarity,no envy,no emotions based on waking connectivity.a temporary absence from the social scene lends it a statuary peace, a warm expressivity against the outside cold.

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