Ihor Podolchak

Ihor Podolchak (Ukrainian: Ігор Подольчак) (born April 9, 1962) is a Ukrainian filmmaker and visual artist. He is a co-founder of the creative association Masoch Fund.
Ihor Podolchak was voted as one of the 10 most prominent Ukrainian filmmakers by Forbes Ukraine in 2014

Podolchak was born in Lviv, Ukrainian SSR, USSR (now Ukraine). He graduated from Lviv Academy of Fine Arts (then Lviv State Institute of Applied and Decorative Arts) with distinction in 1984. From 1984 to 1985 he served in the Soviet Border Troops on the Soviet-Polish border.

The artist's book Jacob Bohme was awarded as World's Best Book (Bronze Medal) by Stiftung Buchkunst Frankfurt am Main at Frankfurt Book Fair. One of his 24 personal exhibitions was the first art exhibition ever to be held in space, at space station Mir on January 25, 1993. Artworks of Podolchak can be found in 26 museums and public collections worldwide.

Poster Las Meninas

Poster Delirium

Both films of Podolchak have common characteristic features: departure from narrative, anthropology of enclosed worlds, elaborated composition of frame, unusual shooting angles. The spaces of Las Meninas and Delirium are similarly dense, difficult for movement, tiresome both for the characters moving within them and the viewers watching them. This reflects the time of “the end of history” with its somnambulism, impotence, morbidity and hopelessness.

Las Meninas

Las Meninas is Podolchak's debut full-length film. He wrote, directed and produced it. The film had a world premiere at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in the competition program on January 25, 2008. Overall, it has participated in 27 international film festivals, including 10 competition programs.

Delirium

Delirium is Podolchak's second full-length feature. Its script is based on the story Inductor by the Ukrainian writer and journalist Dmytro Belyanskyi. The film’s production lasted during 2008–2010. For the first time fragments of the film were demonstrated in 2012 on the 45th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in the program Films in production. New full-length films from Central and Eastern Europe. After the prerelease screenings, Ukrainian film critics compared the second film of Podolchak to the works of Alain Robbe-Grillet, Pedro Costa and Nikos Nikolaidis.

Position 5 in Top-10 Ukrainian films of 2012 by «Афіша@Mail.Ru».

Prizes:

• 2013 «First Prize», Baghdad International Film Festival, Iraq
• 1995 «Triennaleprize», 11th Norway International Print Triennial, Fredrikstad
• 1994 «Walter Tiemann Preis», Verein zur Förderung von Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig e.V. an der Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig
• 1990 «Latvian Artist Union Prize», Triennial of miniature graphic art, Riga
• 1990 «1st Award for graphics», 5th Annual International Art Exhibition, Marietta, USA
• 1989 «Diploma», International Biennial of Art Impreza, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine
• 1988 «Prix Ex Aequo», 12th International Print Biennial, Cracow
• 1987 «Honorable Medal», Small Graphic Forms, Łódź

Nominations:

• 2013 «Best Director» Director's Week Competition, Fantasporto, Oporto International Film Festival, Porto
• 2009 «Prize», Trieste Film Festival
• 2008 «Tiger», 37th International Film Festival Rotterdam
• 2008 «Prize FIPRESCI», 7th Transilvania International Film Festival, Cluj Napoca
• 2008 «Prize», 16th Artfilm International Film Festival, Slovakia

• Baghdad International Film Festival
• 11 Norwegian International Print Triennale. Fredrikstad: Norske Internasjonale Grafikk Triennale, 1995. pp. 269, 343, OCLC 47160369
• 12 Międzynarodowe Biennale Grafiki, Kraków: Biuro Wystaw Artystycznych, 1988, OCLC 34341741
• Miejska Galeria Sztuki. Wyroznieni. Retrieved November 5, 2009
• Fantasporto 2013 Director's Week Competition, IMDb. Retrieved March 6, 2013
• Trieste Film Festival. Ventesima Edizione Duemilanove. Trieste: Alpe Adria Cinema, 2009. pp. 48-49 OCLC 451007614
• 37th International Film Festival Rotterdam. 23 january – 3 February 2008. Rotterdam: IFFR, 2008, p.42 ISSN 1873-8362
• ArtFilm International Film Festival Trencianske Teplice-Trencin. Bratislava: Art Film 2008, p.55 OCLC 450932929