HOLY DRILL
Film by: Maxim Shalygin
FILM INFO:
- Holy Drill, 2013
- Copyright: Ukrainian State Film Agency, 2013
- Format: feature narrative, drama
- Color: yes
- Length: 94 min.
- Original language: Ukrainian
- English subtitles: yes
- The film features ‘Holy Drill’ electro-acoustic piece (tape); 13′. More info.
FILM CREW:
- Producer, director, editor & composer: Maxim Shalygin
NOMINATION & AWARDS
- Award winner at The Shawna Shea Memorial Film Festival (2020). Category: Music Video
- Honorable Mention at the International Film Festival The Hague (2020). Category: Mobile phone video
- Finalist at the Kosice International Film Festival (2020). Category: Mobile Short Film/Music Video
- Selected for New York Lift-Off Film Festival (2020) Category: Smartphone Films
The film was shot with Samsung Galaxy S7 at Kinderdijk (UNESCO World Heritage site since 1997) village in the municipality of Molenlanden, in the province of South Holland, Netherlands. A mill is the main symbol of the Netherlands. The perpetual rotation of a mill symbolizes immortality. Rising and falling wings of a windmill, according to medieval interpretations, refers to the descent of God to a man and the rise of a man to God, it symbolizes fall and rebirth, cyclical change of times, and world epochs.