Accident is the most vital element of everyday life. Accident knows exactly when to happen. It unmistakably chooses the moment and with grace inaccessible to human (and with inhuman ingenuity) invades reality. Like an experienced playwright, accident makes up a story. Denis Klebleev formulates his attitude to accident in films as follows: “While filming documentaries, I have repeatedly witnessed how, by pure accident, for example, a secondary scene suddenly turns into a key one. Accident as a co- director is perhaps the most interesting and mysterious thing in documentary filmmaking. But, like all living things, accident flees stuffy rooms. For an accident to happen, you need air and space.” Denis will talk about how to create this space for accident in documentary films using the example of his films — 31ST HAUL, STRANGE PARTICLES, KING LEAR.
Denis Klebleev
Documentary film director, cinematographer, photographer. In 2012 he graduated from Marina Razbezhkina’s Documentary Film Workshop. The premiere screening of his thesis film 31ST HAUL took place at the Artdokfest in Moscow, where it received the Prize for Best Feature Film. The international premiere of his second film STRANGE PARTICLES took place in Paris at the 2015 Cinema Du Reel Festival (Joris Ivens Prize, Young Jury Prize for Best Film). In 2015, he became a jury member of the Leopards of Tomorrow program at the 68th Locarno Film Festival. The international premiere of his third film KING LEAR took place at the HotDocs Festival in Toronto in 2018. Since 2015 he has been teaching at Moscow Film School and at Marina Razbezhkina’s Workshop. Currently he is in post-production of his new documentary film about the actress Alisa Freindlich.
Filmography:
— KING LEAR, 2017
— STRANGE PARTICLES, 2015
— 31ST HAUL, 2012