Premiere of Deyan Statulov’s book Between Two Frames

 
Between Two Frames by Deyan Statulov
51 contemporary artists of Bulgarian cinema share their stories from the world of Bulgarian cinema
 
The premiere of the book is on October 7 (Monday) at 18:30 in the Odeon Cinema.
 
Between Two Frames is the first part of a series of books in which contemporary artists of Bulgarian cinema talk about their path to the films we watch. Some of them are favourites of the audience, others are lesser known, but they all create the current image of cinema in Bulgaria. Conversations with them reveal the diverse, charming, conflicted, but still favourite world of our country’s cinematography.
The conversations have been made over the last five years. They are a snapshot of working with the creators. The author was not looking for completeness or actuality outside the specific film or role that provoked the meeting with the characters in the book.
These are not interviews, but conversations between two dubs on the set, between two rehearsals stolen during the break in the theatre or just between two beers. All the conversations are different, as are the interlocutors – some are more talkative, others more concise, but what unites them is their desire to shoot cinema and create in Bulgaria.
Among the characters of the book are Ana Papadopoulou, Vesela Babinova, Viktor Bozhinov, Viktor Chuchkov, Galin Stoev, Dimitar Nikolov, Ivan Burnev, Irini Jambonas, Martina Apostolova, Ovanes Torossian, Stanislav Todorov – Rogi, Stefan Komandarev, Stefan Valdobrev, Stefan Denolyubov, Teodora Duhovnikova, Julian Vergov, Yana Titova and many others.
 
About the author:
Assoc. Prof. Deyan Statulov, PhD, is the Head of the Screen Arts Sector at the Institute of Art Studies at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. He has over 400 publications in the field of film history and criticism. He was a host, editor, and screenwriter of TV shows and formats. Over the years, he has been a film observer at BNT, Nova and bTV. Since 2022 he has been teaching the history of Bulgarian and world cinema at Lyuben Groys Theatre College – Sofia. Author of the books (Not) Possible Freedom (2022) and (Re)Commissioned Films (2023). He received awards for operational criticism (2022) and a book (2024) at the Vasil Gendov Awards of the Union of Bulgarian Film Makers, as well as the Sofia Award 2024 for cultural criticism.