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That's all I can show from recent work. The page background and other recent photos are on instagr.am/gorelikspb.

I used to shoot a lot earlier โ€” not everything survived. Here's what I found; sadly, not always in good quality.

Documentary

Graduation film

English subtitles ยท 2009

Ne igrushki (Not toys)

Feature film trailer

English subtitles ยท 2010

The New Martyrs โ€” trailer

Reports

Giving food to the homeless

Social reportage ยท 2012

Giving food to the homeless

Impressions of St. Petersburg

City ยท essay

Impressions of St. Petersburg

Protests in Russia

Politics ยท recent history

Protests in Russia

Exhibition report

Culture ยท reportage

Exhibition report

Projects

Opera on the train

Draft ยท stalled in development

Opera on the train

Older work in SD / early HD โ€” image quality doesn't meet today's standards.

Installation

The Return of the Double-Headed Eagle

Contemporary Art in a Traditional Museum ยท Innovation Prize nominee

An ironic attempt to soften Russia's austere state emblem โ€” from a time when such a turn still seemed imaginable.

Artistic context Plush double-headed eaglets nested in elements of the museum displays, symbolizing emergence and a pop-cultural, domesticated reading of state symbolism and imperial ambition.