1000 Dreams / Ming Kiyal

Credits

cast

Marat Sarulu

Director
09/26/1957

Biography

He graduated in philosophy faculty of the Kyrghyz National University, 1980. Subsequently he studied at the Moscow Cinema Academy, 1984. He wrote more than ten scenarios for own and other films, and also directed five feature-length, four short, five documentary and one animated film. One of the founders of a “New Wave” in the Kyrgyz cinema beginning of the 1990s. He works in an independent art-house cinema. Member of Kyrgyzstan Film makers Union. He lives and works in Kyrgyzstan.

Filmography

«Ming Kiyal» («1000 Dreams») – 88 min., Color & B&W, 2021, Kyrghyz Republic «Köch» («The Move») - 137 min, color, 2014, Kyrghyz Republic “Song From The Southern Seas” – 82 min, color, 2008, Kazakhstan ,Germany, Russia, France “Rough River, Placid Sea” (new version of the film In Spe) – 61 min, Color, 1993-2004, Kazakhstan

Directors Statement

"Photography is a demonstration of what does not exist." (Thierry Cohen) At first, the film unfolds as a theme that can be described as "love amid change." Here, the social background is removed and transformed into an expressive psychedelic, turning the plot into a complex relationship between reality and fiction. The true author of the story creates within the real flow of life his own secret myth in which he disappears. Dreams, memories and fantasies are intertwined with reality, creating a complex metaphysical pattern.