Beat / Биение

Credits

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Biography

After having graduated from The Moscow University in 2008 Anna Ozar started working as a culture editor for «The Moscow News». Later in 2011 she quit journalism and entered VGIK to study filmdirecting and drama. In 2012 she wrote and directed a short dramedy «Shubaduba in peonies» - the movie was included into The Short Film Corner of The 66 Cannes Film Festival in 2013. Anna worked in co-writing and co-directing until she graduated from New York Film Academy in 2017 (screenwriting course). Since then she wrote one Russian series (18 episodes) and started her own directing career. Among other things Anna Ozar is an actress and a poet.

Filmography

2012 - «Shubaduba in peonies» (30 min, dramedy) / 2016 - «My Dear Family» (1 episode, TV series) / 2018 - «Moscow Legal» (18 episodes TV series )

Directors Statement

Globally 38% of murders of women are committed by a male intimate partner. Me personally managed to escape death despite many injures and a heavy concussion. I’m divorced but not mute now. I want to make a visual statement on the subject that feels revolting or at least uncomfortable. This short movie is a death dance as a side of love. Love that loses its magic power after one of the partners walks the line of mutual respect and acts irreversibly. Love that is incompatible with life.