Rustam Khamdamov is an author-myth, an author-enigma. His cinema is a phantom, everything in it is too fragile to be called a "film." Films are produced, films are released for distribution, films are kept in archives. Khamdamov's cinema lives a...
different life. It exists in the whimsical movement of lines: the plot itself — those who have seen Rustam Khamdamov drawing with ink will understand. The author's hand merely keeps up with what is to be born, to burst forth, to dissolve.
Rustam Khamdamov is an author-myth, an author-enigma. His cinema is a phantom, everything in it is too fragile to be called a "film." Films are produced, films are released for distribution, films are kept in archives. Khamdamov's cinema lives a different life. It exists in the whimsical movement of lines: the plot itself — those who have seen Rustam Khamdamov drawing with ink will understand. The author's hand merely keeps up with what is to be born, to burst forth, to dissolve.