Buritō Kōsu
In May 2019 together with the team of 17 braves I organized and went through Buritō Kōsu —the craziest photographic course in modern history. 15 days of the pure, non-stop creative madness
The goal of the course was to create key visuals for an upcoming album of a Russian band “Burito”. And not just some standard musicians’ portraits. We aimed to shoot five stills from “an imaginary sci-fi blockbuster ripoff, shot by Hong Kong video pirates at Bollywood movie studios”.
For 15 days we were planning, sketching, designing costumes, constructing props, building and lighting sets and, of course, taking some pictures. Here are the results of these two weeks.
Together with my students and course team we came up with five different characters, each with their own mood, story, and location.
Deepwater Treasure Hunter in a flooded city
Noodle Maker on the streets of a XXII century Asian megapolis
Wandering Samurai in post apocalyptic wastelands
Robotomb Raider stealing a cyber heart from an abandoned pre-War storage unit
Cyber Monk in a virtual prayer room
4x5
We then went further in playing with different visual styles. Shot with Sinar 4x5 field camera on old black and white film sheets, these photographs pay tribute to classical XIX century samurai portraits.
The gathering
Behind the scenes
Project's first mood board
Burito Kosu, a photographic course by Andrew Kovalev
Producers: Polina Efremenko, Kristina Kryzhanovskaya, Anna Bednieri
Technical director: Timur Ivanov
Chief engineer: Ilya Ponomarev
Production team: Kamil Guliev, Irina Ruleva, Vyacheslav Konev, Serj Longray, Tatyana Gallyamova, Nikolai Wilflingsider
Guest costume designer: Maria Meleshko
Guest collaborators: Marina Kovalishina, Catherine Zolotukhina, Anna Fedoruk, Anna Musatova, Alexander Podgornykh
BTS-cinematographers: Nikita Goryachkin, Elina Wexler
BTS-photographer: Elina Wexler
Documentary director: Varvara Gladkaya
Sound engineer: Olga Lopina
Sound team: Grigory Rastatuev, Sergei Arakeliants
Thanks to Broncolor Russia/Sinar Swiss (SBF Moscow) and Sergey Rumyantsev for technical support, Zabota Coworking and Elya Logina for giving the course a magnificent home
A very special thanks to Velvet Music & Burito for believing in such a crazy idea
and trusting our artistic vision
and trusting our artistic vision
Moscow, 2019
