Florian Yuriev

Florian YURIEV (1929-2021) wasn’t a filmmaker as such, even if moving images and the interaction of lights and sounds did play a major part in his art – which one could describe as the most expanded of cinema. Yuriev was a painter who developed a whole theory of colour and musicality. He was an architect whose most famous creation was later used as a hall for lectures and cinema, but was designed to host what he called Light Theatre performances. And as a true man of the 20th century, he did, of course, shoot films – yet without ever feeling the need to finish them.