ABOUT — Luda Kuropyatnikova

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.

SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY

City of Owls

2026, fiction, 13 min
dir. Zhenia Kazankina, prod. Il Varco Cinema, Eversince GMBH, Moderato Films
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Threads of Support

2026, experimental, documentary, 21 min

dir. Olya Korsun, prod. EastEast Films with the support of Doha Film Institute

Colpo Di Sole

2026, fiction, 14 min

dir. Lydia Leiber, prod. Intermezzo, Shorelight Pictures

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New

2024, fiction, 23 min

dir. Zhenia Kazankina, prod. Stereotactic, Minerva Pictures, Il Varco Cinema