Konstantin Eduardowitsch Bronsit

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Konstantin Eduardowitsch Bronsit ( Russian Константин Эдуардович Бронзит ; born April 12, 1965 in Leningrad ) is a Russian film director and animator .

Life

Bronsit was born in Leningrad as the son of a nurse and an optomechanic . His talent for drawing was discovered during his school days, so that he attended art schools from the 5th grade. He studied art and design at the Repin Institute for Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in Leningrad until 1983. Then from 1985 worked at Lennautschfilm , where he was involved as an animator in educational and science films. Here he made his film debut Karusel , in which he animated the cycle of nature - fly is hunted by frog, frog is hunted by bird, while the bird is hunted by the hunter, who in turn drives away the fly at the end. From 1988 he was also active as a cartoonist for newspapers.

In 1992 Bronsit graduated from the St. Petersburg Higher School of Industrial Art and was then a student of Fyodor Chitruk until 1995 when he attended the advanced course for screenwriters and directors in Moscow. Until 1995 Bronsit worked as an animator at the animation film studio Pilot in Moscow, where, among other things, the short animated films Fare-Well! (Пережёвывай !, 1993), Nock-Nock (Тук-тук, 1993) and Pacifier (Пустышка, 1994). From 1996 he worked in a television studio in the advertising sector and in 1998 went to the Folimage studio in Valence , where he created his short animation film At the End of the World as Artist in Residence . He received over 60 prizes at international festivals and was nominated for a César . Bronsit returned to Russia in 1999 and has been the artistic director of the Melnitsa animation film studio in St. Petersburg ever since. Among other things, he directed the feature film Aljoscha, the glorious warrior , which was released in 2004. Bronsit received an Oscar nomination in 2009 for the short animated film Lavatory Lovestory in the category Best Animated Short Film . We Can't Live Without Cosmos , an animated film about two cosmonaut friends and their everyday life from 2014, has received awards at numerous festivals and in 2015 won the Cristal d'Annecy of the Festival d'Animation Annecy . In 2016 he was nominated for an Oscar for Best Animated Short Film.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1988: Karusel (Карусель)
  • 1991: Memento Mori
  • 1993: Fare-Well! (Пережёвывай!)
  • 1993: Nock-Nock (Тук-тук)
  • 1994: Switchcraft (Свичкрафт)
  • 1994: Pacifier (Пустышка)
  • 1997: Die Hard
  • 1999: At the end of the world (Au bout du monde)
  • 2003: The God (Божество)
  • 2004: Aljoscha, the glorious warrior (Алёша Попович и Тугарин Змей)
  • 2006: Lavatory Lovestory (Уборная история - любовная история)
  • 2014: We Can't Live Without Cosmos (Мы не можем жить без космоса)

Awards (selection)

literature

  • The Tricks, Flies and Timing of Konstantin Bronzit . In: Chris Robinson: Animators Unearthed: A Guide to the Best of Contemporary Animation . Continuum, New York 2012, pp. 157-162.
  • Constantine Bronzite . In: Anima Mundi (Ed.), Julius Wiedemann (Ed.): Animation Now! Taschen, Cologne u. a. 2004, pp. 284-289.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Konstantin Bronzit on festivalonwheels.org
personal data
SURNAME Bronsit, Konstantin Eduardowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Бронзит, Константин Эдуардович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian animator and film director
DATE OF BIRTH April 12, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Leningrad