Film

“It’s Not Me Who Paints, But He Paints by Me”

A documentary about the artist’s path, faith and way of life, made as an episode of the series “Global Orthodox”. It premiered on 23 January 2022 at Cube.Moscow.

Credits

Produced by
Foma Kino
Director
Alexander Lebedev
Producers
Igor Meshchan, Igor Logvinenko
Cinematographer
Alexey Tikhonyuk
Composer
Yuri Negrebetsky
Premiere · 23 January 2022

Cube.Moscow

Cube.Moscow hosted an evening marking the release of the documentary “It’s Not Me Who Paints, But He Paints by Me”, produced by Foma Kino studio.

Admirers of the artist’s work, figures from the arts, collectors and friends gathered for the screening and a meeting with its hero. Before the film, saxophonist Sergei Khramtsevich played variations on the soundtrack on baritone sax, and composer Yuri Negrebetsky presented the film’s main themes in a new arrangement.

After the screening, director Alexander Lebedev and Nikolay Cherednichenko answered questions from the audience. The evening closed with the artist’s own tour of the paintings featured in the film, which hung on the walls of the hall.

No Way Back
Music from the film

No Way Back

Composer — Yuri Negrebetsky

No Way Back did not start as a song: it was first the score for the documentary about Nikolay Cherednichenko. Along the way the music turned into a song about leaving, searching and finding meaning in change — and became part of the composer’s solo album.