Interview: Kamila Mamadnazarbekova IN THE RUBRIC "BUSINESS" we introduce readers to women of different professions and hobbies that we like or are just interested in. This time, the actress, the editing director and producer Dunya Sychev, who put her hand to the three films from the program of the recent Cannes festival (including "Happy end" Haneke), talks about friendship with Abel Ferrara, statelessness and apartment exhibitions of Russian painting in Paris, which was arranged by her parents. Publication from dounia sichov (@dounia. Sichov) Dec 15 2016 at 10:31 PST About the profession of an actress and a director of editing Acting work and editing arose in my life at the same time. And it's not bad: the theatrical actor is constantly at work, and the movie actor plays five, eight, fifteen days, and the rest of the time is waiting. I would not be used to this. At first I worked in the theater, but I always did it in parallel something else, for example, translation. Translated Florenskogo into French - "Hamlet" is called, this is a theological essay, published in the publishing house Edition Allia; They produce such small but very good books. The theatrical actor is constantly at work, and the movie actor is waiting all the time. One day, unknown people called me: they say they made a documentary about Sokurov and we are looking for an interpreter. They mounted it, but neither the editor nor the director spoke Russian, so they did not know if the sound was well adjusted. For a couple of days I sat with them and checked the gluing together - so I saw that such an installation. At first I was in short films with friends - and I loved the movie wildly. It reminded me of how I was doing music on the computer: here is the same, only with the picture. After that I decided to go to the famous film school in Gobelins. At the same time, other strangers contacted me and asked me to take part in the film. It was such casting sauvage - casting at random: they were looking for actors who could also play musical instruments. This was my first full-length movie - called "Memory Lane"; It even got to the festival in Locarno. Immediately after the shootings, I still went to Gobelins, got an additional education and began to edit and sometimes play. About work with Ferrara and Haneke With Ferrara (Abel Ferrara, American filmmaker. - Prim. Red. ) We met at the festival in Bordeaux four years ago, I had a film there "Marusya". This is the only movie in which I shot, and mounted. Casting director was looking for women with Russian roots. We met and concurrently I was informed at the moment that there was a film for which a Russian-speaking editor was looking for. Then the producer calls back and says: "Dunya, so it's you? "Cinema eventually got a prize in Bordeaux. Abel was there as an honored guest, we met and immediately became friends. He invited me to work on the film Pasolini: I spent a week on the set, I played with Willem Defoe a little; Then helped with the editing. In 2016, we did a concert together - Abel Ferrara Cabaret, - and although only one was planned, eventually decided to arrange a tour and film about it. It was necessary to find the dates, organize everything - so I became also a producer. Abel himself says that he is a film director, but he would like to be a rock star. Music for Ferrara is very important, because when he writes the script, often the point of reference becomes a song. "Bad Lieutenant" is a song, "4h44" is a song. His budgets are small and do not allow buying music, so he writes it himself: two or three musicians work with him, and almost the whole concert is music from his movie. In "Happy end" Haneke I have a rather cameo. They needed a lot of people to play the bourgeois; I was shot eight days, and I can be seen, probably three seconds. The role is tiny, but I played it with pleasure. Publication from dounia sichov (@dounia. Sichov) Mar 23 2017 at 1:59 PDT On the Status of Refugees in France I was nobody for the country when I was born - and so the first five years. I remember the day when I got citizenship, the first in the family: if you were born and lived for five years without interruption, you can ask. And my parents lived without him for ten years. Father (known photographer Vladimir Sychev. - Prim. Red. ) Was Nansen's passport, and he traveled everywhere with him. In 1989, they received citizenship due to Jacques Chirac personally. My father was on a business trip. In 1988 there were elections in which Chirac was a candidate, and his father photographed during the election campaign. And Chirac adores Russian and even translated "Eugene Onegin". When he learned that his father had lived in France for ten years without citizenship, he ordered him to write to the Paris mayor's office - and within a year after that everyone in my family received the documents. About the father-photographer and apartment exhibitions Parents came to France as refugees. First they were in Vienna, intending to go to America, but six months later went to Paris to solve the situation with the paintings. Their parents collect them and because of this they were forced to leave the Soviet Union. The paintings they loved were not considered official. They did not bring any special money, but they really loved these artists, and still love, they even have pictures under the bed. In 1974 there was an exhibition, which was demolished by bulldozers ("Bulldozer Exhibition", a well-known public action of unofficial art. - Prim. Red. Father was on it, was going to photograph friends. Then five people were arrested, two were imprisoned, including my father, for two weeks. They said that he was allegedly drunk and brawled, tore up trees - and my father never drank at all. Problems started, because people from the KGB went to those with whom my father worked, and told not to take photos of Vladimir Sychev. What for? Because if he was left without work, he could be planted. These were the first photographs from the Soviet Union that were not propaganda and showed daily life. The father himself considers himself a street photographer, he likes, like Cartier-Bresson or Koudelka, walk along the street and take pictures. And when he offered his pictures in Paris, it was a success. The fact is that these were the first photographs from the Soviet Union that were not propaganda and showed everyday life. At the same time, my father was never an anti-communist. He said that there is a lot of good in the Union, there is simply no freedom - political and creative, one can not love some artists. And so - there are schools, hospitals work. Helmut Newton found his father in Vogue, a contract for two years. Then my father started working at the Sipa Press agency and spent twenty-five years there. I photographed everything: both wars, and the Olympic games, and fashion, and politics.

Center Pompidou recently took his photos in the main collection. Now he is retired, but still photographs - this is his life, you can say. To us still unfamiliar people come and say: "Hello, are you Vladimir Sychev? Are you Aida Khmeleva? Can you see the pictures? I was told what you have ". Now my father lives in Berlin, my mother in Paris, everyone has his own collection. But visits continue.

Original article: Director of the installation of Dunya Sychev on work with Abel Ferrara and emigration.