Making political, no-budget cinema - with Vladimir Kozlov

#60 - in conversation with Belarusian filmmaker and writer, Vladimir Kozlov.  Born in Mogilev, an industrial city in what is now Belarus, Vladimir Kozlov grew up amidst the unraveling of the Soviet Union. His formative years in the suburbs were marked by the chaos of the early 1990s—a time of unbridled freedom, wild capitalism, and rampant crime. Moving from Mogilev to Minsk and eventually to Moscow, Vladimir has dedicated his life to unpacking the legacy of the Soviet past. Through his writing and cinematographic work, he delves deep into the cultural and social fabric of Russian and Belarusian society, asking pressing questions: Where did we go wrong? What did we overlook, leading us back to a totalitarian and authoritarian reality? Podcast created in collaborating with Belarusian Filmmakers Network (BFN) Films by Vladimir Kozlov: Number 10 (2013) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WpAKih8Ak0 Whatever We Want (2019) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REZpHrzQH0o&t=10s Three Comrades (2020) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chU-CDMLSz4&t=649s Summer of '89 (2022) https://vodblisk.northernlightsff.com/summer_of_89 Other references: Artist YouTube https://www.youtube.com/vkozlov Artist Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/v_kozlov/ ___ Buy me a coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/kitchenconversations Become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/kitchenconversations  Visit shop: https://www.etsy.com/de-en/shop/PatrycjaRozwora?ref=shop-header-name&listing_id=1398125905&from_page=listing Get in touch: https://www.instagram.com/kitchenconversations.podcast/  ___ Recording & editing: Patrycja Rozwora Mix & master: Jonas Kröper