Tag: Helen Polishuk
I hasten to meet you again, my readers.
The year flew by quickly and intensely, and now it’s December. Last month of the year. As always, let’s sum up the history of plans for the next year.
Summing up the results of the year, I confess that the year had everything – losses, failures, new trials, rest and travel, and of course awards.
Of the losses associated with this terrible year, these are the losses of people close to me. I was left without my mother, and although she died after a long illness, but I miss her so much. I left my parents very early and began to live on my own. Therefore, my parents were a place for me to hurry back to, like in childhood. However, everything changes. The loss of loved ones is always painful.
The war that is now on the territory of my country also affects. At the beginning, I couldn’t get used to it, I suffered from insomnia, called my friends a lot, tried to help, volunteer. Later I tried to create conditions when my real help would be useful. But you can’t get used to the war and I, like many people, dream that the war ends.
I spent three months of spring in the international project “Children War Ukraine”. This is an online project that connected children and is aimed at developing their abilities and desire for creativity. I created videos for poems written by children. The project helped popularize the creativity of Ukrainian children.
In the spring, a significant event was the organization of the performance “Mazeppa” at the Zahrava Theater in Toronto. I am glad that the theatre, despite many difficulties, has released a performance and I am doubly glad that several strong participants have been added to its group. I wish them further growth and success in their difficult work.
Throughout the year I drew a lot and this could not but affect my work.
As quarantine restrictions eased and galleries began to open, I became a participant of many with great enthusiasm.
Pictures created by me over the past year can be viewed on social networks.
There is a page on facebook created by me
https://www.facebook.com/helenpolishukart
Please, subscribe to it so that you are always aware of my new work.
From the latest news related to galleries, I am participating in the exhibition, which will be held from December 6 to December 24 2022 at Cloverdale Mall Etobicoke Ontario.This is an exhibition of works that have passed the competitive selection of the jury of Art Etobicoke. It is a pleasure for me to present two works there, which are very dear to me. I publish them here with a little descriptions about:
I exhibited as the best work of this year my painting POPPIES, created in the spring of 2022 and dedicated to all the soldiers who died in the war. This is the grief of mothers, this is the pain of wives and children, this is the groan of the land on which the war is going on. The picture was created in memory of the dead soldiers, whose names will remain in our memory.
Poppies (2022)
Materials: acrylic on canvas
The second painting presented at the exhibition is a painting MY DREAM created in 2017 and this is my calling card.This painting from her creation and during gallery life, the painting has an interesting history.
For the first time it was exhibited at an online gallery in the UK. Six months later, I stopped working with the gallery and the painting moved online to France, to an online gallery(she is lucky, she moved without problems and payment in the Internet space).
Materials:oil on canvas
The painting was created very quickly ,like it was drawn by itself. I don’t remember exactly, but the idea came instantly: a couple of strokes, oil sketches, then quickly quickly and by nightfall it was almost created. After drying I just tweaked the shadows a little. It felt like she wanted to be created by me. This happens with artists. Going back to 2017, like this 2022, it was very creative year and a lot of paintings were created.
Having got to the selection of the jury, the picture had to be framed and organized for the exhibition. And here is the story again. I looked for many frames, but none of them matched the color or size. Already tired of searching and giving up ready-made frames, I decided to order at the store, but it was closed there. I returned to the search for ready-made ones and an hour before submitting paintings to the exhibition. I found a frame that not only displayed the depth of the picture in golden color, but also decorated it and added value to it. The picture came to life. This is a real miracle.
And last painting with award:
Materials: acrylic on canvas
Describing the last awards of the year, I want to note another victory in the selection of banners by the jury for the city of Pickering. This painting is especially dear to me, as it is a symbol of the unity of Ukrainian and Canadian art.
In this picture, which I specially created for this competition, the element of water is in its design.
The city of Pickering is located on the coast of Ontario and has a nuclear power plant. It depends on the element of water. Water is a symbol of the life of this city. Therefore, it is depicted in the center of the painting.
Envelops its flowers, painted in the Petrykivka style.
In the style that I paint, continuing the old Ukrainian traditions. And it is so well combined. It was noticed by the jury and selected for a banner.
Now my work in the coming year will hang on the main street of the city and decorate and delight.
That’s all news for today.
Don’t leave, there’s more to come soon
Helen
Dec 5 2022
Mimmis Adventures Interview
https://intothewildfest.wixsite.com/home/mimmisadventure
First of all we would like you to introduce yourself so that we can introduce you to our audience. Who are you? How long have you been making films?
Over 15 years in film production, last 4 years filmmaking, scriptwriting and producing
And now we talk about your project Mimmis Adventures. What the audience will find?
I wanted to create a film through the eyes of a small clumsy dog. Exactly a comedy , becouse to show the world how it seen dog, animal perception of the surroundings of the city and nature.
Mimmi is 1.5 kg mini chihwahwa and absolutely not trained for filming. I had to adapt to him. He is afraid of street filming and therefore trembling ears are often visible.
IBy shooting in different locations, the film turned out to be rich and I have reached my goal to show the beauty of nature.
A special place is given to Mimmi in nature, where he smells flowers and grass, where bees fly and the sun shines.
Were you inspired by any other movie to make Mimmis Adventures?
Absolutely my idea.
If you see this little mischievous dog, the first thing you will do is smile.
That’s why when he appeared, I created the film with a smile.
And this is just the beginning. There is already a continuation. Not yet mounted ,videos already in the files. I would like to complicate the topic and add more adventures.
And now we would like to know about your cinematographic preferences:
I came to the cinema already as an artist, therefore the image is important for me. I constantly fill my eye by creating video filming.
I like editing shots to create the images you see onscreen, creates shot lists, floor plans, and lighting diagrams
I study techniques and try different cameras, study cinematic elements such as lenses, filters, lights, and other camera/lighting requirements.
I have my own three cameras and they are different. I continue to draw
What does cinema mean to you?
This is my life. I came to the cinema in love with work and gradually improved. Now a lot is behind me and I understand. It’s difficult to achieve everything at once.
Apparently I am one of the difficult creators. Shooting a couple of scenes, dialogues, saturating them with special effects is too easy for me. Creating a very vivid script and implementing it in a film is my goal before starting a film.
Therefore, science fiction and horror remains one of the main genres for me because it is necessary to realize the meaning of the script in the frame
Which movie is the best for you?
Metropolis by Fritz Lang and now DUNE by Denis Villeneuve .
I think it’s the best movie in recent years.
What do you think a movie must have as an essential ingredient?
The main thing is an excellent SCRIPT.
Thoughtful, calculated and laid back a little to remove the excess.
Your favorite actor or actress?
The most difficult question of all.
I will try to answer. I am a technician. I approach the work technically.
It’s hard for me to name someone I love more than another.
When I watch films, and I do it almost regularly, I see the performance of actors and somewhere better, somewhere weaker. But there are no privileges and preferences.
After all, I am a small segment of a large machine. Success with us is not always possible to predict.
And you will agree that in some genre some actors are more successful, while in others they lose.
By the way, I run Instagram (@astra_production) where I share my opinion about the movie I watched and even try to determine during past years who will win the Oscar. There is a Sunday contest for knowing the name of the movie. I share videos where I show bts of movies.
What qualities do you see in that actor/actress to have such consideration. What do you like most about them?
I am very picky about projects.
On the site, sometimes you have to adapt. I will give an example.
In one films, the main actress was a lthree-year-old girl. Her parents forbade her to use a mobile phone.
Her shooting lasted a long time, she kept the text, was calm and easily recorded, but there was no fire, no spark was felt. I came up with a scene that she was holding a mobile phone and photographing a drawing that she sent to her grandmother.
The girl immediately came to life, I told how to use a mobile phone. In the frame, she herself took a picture. How much joy she had and this is the first time in her life.
This happens.
A good movie has to…
Everything worked out perfectly – make-up, lighting, screenwriter, director, cameraman and producer with advertising.
What genre of cinema do you prefer?
Ski fi/triller/adventures/historical/horror/action
How do you define yourself professionally?
I love my job and am always learning and trying new things.
What movie have you seen most often?
Only one? The last script I did was a historical triller. At the end the producer decided that it was necessary to add a spy movie and I had to watch a lot of spy movies to put together an image.
I can’t remember any one that I look at more than others.
What topics are the most inspiring for you?
My last work is historical triller
What helps you to be more creative? Do you have a writing routine?
Yes, I like to stop myself and somewhere in the notes to write down some statements, thoughts, or if something has affected me in the news, then study it in detail.
When you write a script, are you clear about how it will end or are you building it?
Short films are based on ideas and are easy to anticipate without construction.
But with the film 130 minutes + you have to build. After all, there is a line of a hero or several, plus climaxes and denouement. And this must be built
Thank you for the interview. It is very full and interesting.Thank you very much for your attention and see you again.
I want to note that for me the theme of nature is very relevant and free time, time of relaxation and rest, I actively devote to going out into nature, traveling,hiking.
This interview was given for the Spanish festival Into the wild Film Festival Castelló d’empúries, Girona 17486
Spain april 7,2022
Renewal
Is it possible today speak with you,my readers, without pictures and photos?
Talk to you directly.
First,I wish you health. It is very important .Hope you well.
I want to read your comments, it is important for me to hear you, my readers.
So that I could communicate with you.
Some from you ask why site was closed? I do not know so much about the problem of the Internet, but there was a failure . I can only say that I am very glad that that again my site, which I created brick by brick, by years, putting my desires and dreams, that this site is now working again. I just wish that there was some minimal consensus between the companies and sites and the failures were not so significant and thanks to them, my site is alive. I would like to rejoice together with you that you, my readers, are doing all right and well.
It is most important.
What’s my news?
For the first time in two years, we will have a major auction in August, in which I participate … The auction is anonymous and online.
If you are interested, please take a look at www.fb/Helenpolishukart -that my page on fb where I share paintings and info about future auction.
Another news: second part stories about small doggy Mimmi started postproduction time and I hope you will see them this fall.
Also I have great short film in production about our time,our reality .This movie take more time in production becouse its have graphics and special effects.
There are a few more projects that are too early to announce to you, but they are in the works.
I do not respond to advertisements and do not work for companies or private advertisements.
If you have any business proposals, write to me by email helen.polishuk@gmail.com
I will try to answer to every one.
Once again, I am very glad that my site is working again and I can communicate with you.
I am waiting for your letters
Have a great day.
Helen
July 14 ,2021 Toronto
ANGELS (behind the scenes)
I am sharing great news, friends for you.
,,Angels,, won its second award yesterday.
This is an award at the festival in Munich New Wave Short Film Festival and I am proud of it.
The film received an award in the category Religion & Faith .
I thank the jury for evaluating the film and am very proud for this award.
When a film is recognized by the jury, it is the greatest joy for the producer, for the filmmaker.
This is a victory for perseverance and creativity, for the set and completed task, for efforts, for motivation, for overcoming difficulties, for the love of cinema.
I would like to celebrate the victory with you and tell you how the shooting took place and show the frame-process of filming.Behind the scene
I already told you about this amazing film
By the way, you can watch it online
https://thinkshorts.com/6788/angels
The film starred a 3-year-old girl Maya, who received an award in the nomination TINY SUPERSTAR at ROMA SHORT FILM FESTIVAL a month ago.
The girl is really very talented. She remembered text well, behaved perfectly and calmly in front of the camera.
In this video you can see how easy it is for her in front of the camera.This is final shot.Final scene.
There were many interesting moments in the film.
At least the one when the actress was supposed to draw an angel, but did not want to.
I had to give her a ready-made drawing and turn on the TV so that she was relaxed and played herself.
Well, and another interesting moment, for the first time in her life, during the filming , in front of the camera, she took a mobile phone in her hands.
https://youtu.be/1ZQImlznyMM
Before that, her parents did not allow her to play with mobile phone.
During the filming , Maya picked mobile and not only took, but she needed a mobile phone to photograph her drawing.
And the did it !
From the first shot.
For her, it was innovation, discovery and pleasure.
In general, the film was shot easily for me.
Let me remind you, this was my first film.
I have been preparing for its creation for a long time, studied and tried a lot.
Therefore, I am pleased with every victories of this film ANGELS
There is a film screening ahead at the festival and I hope that soon it will be free to go to the festival as a filmmaker after a year and a half.
ANGELS
Again in touch with you, my readers
I didn’t close my site as planned.
I stay here until 2020 ends with its curiosities
I didn’t close my site as planned.
I stay here until 2020 ends with its curiosities
Over the past year, I have released a short film,,Angels,, I wrote you about earlier.
This short film is about the support of Ukraine and the warmth of family ties between Ukraine, Latvia and Canada.
This is the debut of a small but strong team and Astra Production Center
Really strong team for this time.
In general, the first pancake flew out. And it is called ,, Angels ,,
I presented the film at many festivals in 2020.
I admit I was delighted to receive the awards for him.
In general, the first pancake flew out. And it is called ,, Angels ,,
I presented the film at many festivals in 2020.
I admit I was delighted to receive the awards for him.
Show some of them in photo up
My team that worked on the film is worth such awards.
Little 3-year-old Maya played her role perfectly. She calmly kept herself in the frame, posed, read her text well.
Little 3-year-old Maya played her role perfectly. She calmly kept herself in the frame, posed, read her text well.
5-year-old Sonya, a wonderful skater and an excellent student, the second main character in the film, also played her role perfectly.
And we can already say with confidence that both girls in the future, if they continue their career as actresses, will be successful.
Now the film runs through the festivals, as it should be with.
Today I was officially invited to New York Istanbul Short Film Festivale by a letter from the organizers of the festival.
I hold my fists, I want to get a prize, because it is worth the awards.
Here is a link to my Instagram, where by subscribing, you can follow all my news about me in the world of cinema and art.
Instagram @polishukelena
Facebook this time not active by my opinion
There is a difficult period in the world, many productions have stopped, but I have launched the second film MIMMIS ADVENTURES
New short film being prepared for the release.
It is a comedy about a mini dog chihuahua Mimmy.
I have already written about her and will write further.
I have already written about her and will write further.
Fort York /my center of gravity
There are several places in Toronto where I like to return.
One of them is Fort York, my center of gravity.
There are original War of 1812 buildings and 1813 battle site.Located in downtown.
Having got there once on the Open Day Toronto in May, every year I return there with pleasure.
History of Fort York starts from the moment when John Graves Simcoe ordered the construction of a garrison on the present site of Fort York in 1793.
Simcoe wanted to establish a naval base at Toronto in order to control Lake Ontario.
In his capacity as lieutenant-governor of the British province of Upper Canada, Simcoe also moved the provincial capital to Toronto from the vulnerable border town of Niagara during that tense period. Toronto was renamed ‘York,’ civilian settlement followed the government, and the settlement began to grow. During those early years, Fort York played a significant role in the economic and social development of the small backwoods community.
In 1807, Anglo-American relations began to deteriorate. In 1812, the United States declared war and invaded Canada. On 27 April 1813, the U.S. Army and Navy attacked York with 2700 men on fourteen ships and schooners, armed with eighty-five cannon. The defending force of 750 British, Canadians, Mississaugas, and Ojibways had twelve cannon.
The Americans stormed ashore west of the fort under the cover of their naval guns. The defenders put up a strong fight, but fell back to Fort York from the landing site in the face of overwhelming odds. The British commander, Major-General Sir Roger Sheaffe, then retreated eastward and blew up the fort’s gunpowder magazine (located near today’s Memorial Area). The explosion was devastating: 250 Americans fell dead or wounded from its blast, including their field commander, Brigadier-General Zebulon Pike. Total losses in the six-hour battle were 157 British and 320 Americans.
The Mississaugas and Ojibways withdrew into the forest, Sheaffe’s professional troops retreated to Kingston, and the local militia surrendered the town. The Americans occupied York for six days. They looted homes, took or destroyed supplies, and burned Government House and the Parliament Buildings (near today’s Front and Parliament streets). In 1814, the British retaliated when they captured Washington and burned the White House, Capitol, and other public buildings.
The Americans returned to a defenceless York in July 1813 to burn barracks and other buildings that they missed in April. Shortly afterwards, the British rebuilt Fort York on what is both today’s and Simcoe’s original site. In August 1814, Fort York was strong enough to repel the U.S. squadron when it again tried to enter Toronto Bay. In February 1815, word reached York that the War of 1812 had ended the previous December. It was good news: peace had returned, and the defence of Canada against American invasion had been successful.
The British continued to garrison Fort York after the war, although most soldiers moved to new barracks one kilometre west of the fort in 1841. (The officers’ barracks of that ‘New Fort’ or ‘Stanley Barracks’ survives today.) During times of peace, Fort York’s defences were allowed to deteriorate, only to be strengthened in periods of crisis, such as the Rebellion Crisis of 1837–41, or when war with the United States seemed imminent, such as in 1861–62.
In 1870, the Canadian government assumed responsibility for most of the country’s defences, including Fort York. Canadian troops maintained the harbour defences at the fort until its guns and earthworks became obsolete in the 1880s. The army, however, did not abandon the site at that time, but used it for training, barracks, offices, and storage until the 1930s. Some military activity even took place at Fort York during World War II.
Between 1932 and 1934, the City of Toronto restored Fort York to celebrate the centennial of the incorporation of the city in 1834. On Victoria Day 1934, Fort York opened as a historic site museum. Today, its defensive walls surround Canada’s largest collection of original War of 1812 buildings. Even the older part of the one reconstructed building on the site, the Blue Barracks, contains a significant amount of 1814-period material and is an interesting example of the efforts made during the Great Depression to create employment by restoring and rebuilding historic sites.
Today this place is one of the favorite places in Toronto.On annual festivals here gather from all Ontario and Canada.
Here lives the history of the city.
On the maps you can see the path of hunters, which passed through Toronto to America.
There are exhibits of weapons, household utensils, telling about the life and life of that period.
It is very interesting when the military march and demonstrate how to use weapons.
On holidays you can see dances that show different dance groups and collectives on the territory of the museum.
I love to sign my paintings
I love to sign my paintings.This is a delight.
……………………….I returned to paint landscapes and drew boats among the sea.
Then I had a little color block, I added everything red. Added.Plus :0 More 🙂
Until I got what you see.
I like it………………………………
I can remain silent for a long time in social networks.
It’s not because I have nothing to say.
I am a very hardworking person.
It means that I’m doing something.
……………….Also this winter landscape was drawn among the heat and hot summer.
why?
Do not ask, this presence is red. There is also a red color.:)……………………………….
In the course of a last long weekend I drew more than 10 paintings.
…………………………….I touched on a topic that started a few years ago-a woman and a violin.
I got four wonderful paintings.
I today sign them with pleasure…………………………………………………..
I am very pleased with this result and I sit with pleasure and sign more my work. 🙂
For the artist this is the coolest time of creating a picture.
To sign your work is to finish it.
It means that I agree with everything that is painted there, with light, color, contrast and plot.
What I am showing today is not everything. What have I done.
Very interesting stories appeared in my head. They revolve around the works of the artist Gustav Klimt.
………………..In the favorite I have the latest contrasting drawings of the modern style…………………..
You will see my work very soon.
And right now I just sit and enjoy.
I sign my work with pleasure.
I liked working with red.
This color revived my paintings.
They began to burn in canvas.
I will continue to create this color.
…………….I liked drawing faces.
The truth is, they do not always work for me in the model way, as you would like.
But who else can draw so awfully,, Sleeping,, like me?……………………..
I published all the work on my website.
Only some of them I put on sale on the Artfinder.com and Saatchiart.com.
How is it so good to sit like this,to drink coffee and put the signature on already born paintings.