Luda Kuropyatnikova is a cinematographer born in Saint Petersburg in 1996. She completed a program at the Rodchenko Moscow School of Photography and Multimedia in 2012 and, in 2019, graduated from the Russian Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) with a five-year specialist degree in Cinematography.
Working primarily with analog film formats, Luda develops a visual language rooted in atmosphere, memory, and the physicality of light. Her work often explores the tension between observation and intimacy, combining precise visual composition with an experimental sensibility.
WORKSHOPS & LABS
2026 Talent Lab Reykjavík International Film Festival
2024 Terre Di Cinema Cinecampus - International Cinematographers Days
SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY
2026, fiction, 13 min
dir. Zhenia Kazankina, prod. Il Varco Cinema, Eversince GMBH, Moderato Films
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2026, experimental, documentary, 21 min
dir. Olya Korsun, prod. EastEast Films with the support of Doha Film Institute
2026, fiction, 14 min
dir. Lydia Leiber, prod. Intermezzo, Shorelight Pictures
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2024, fiction, 23 min
dir. Zhenia Kazankina, prod. Stereotactic, Minerva Pictures, Il Varco Cinema
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2022, documentary, 5 min
dir. Zhenia Kazankina, prod. Stereotactic
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2022, experimental, 11 min
dir. Zhenia Kazankina, prod. Stereotactic
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2019, fiction, 22 min
dir. Zhenia Kazankina
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