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YURI SOKOL ACS |
Born: 21 September 1937, Kharkov, Ukraine, USSR, as Yuri Vasilyevich Sokol [Юрий Васильевич Сокол].
Education: VGIK, Moscow [1954-61]; Moscow State Institute of Culture [postgraduate studies, 1977-78].
Career: Worked at Kirghizfilm, Tadjikfilm and, from 1968, Mosfilm. Was developer and managing director of the Waterloo Studios, South Sydney, Australia [1986-92].
Ph 90+ commercials.
Also active as director.
Member of the ACS since 1985.
Lecturer on film and photography in the USSR [1974-78] and Australia.
Was the promoter and organizer of 2 major art exhibitions in Australia: 'Secret Treasures of Russia - 1,000 Years of Russian Gold & Silver' [1993] & 'Kandinsky & Russian Avant-Garde' [1996].
Awards: Film Festival of Central Asia 'Cinematography Award' [1967] for 'Pereklichka/Roll-Call'; AFI [Aus] Award nom [1983] for 'Man of Flowers'; AFI [Aus] Award nom [1984] for 'My First Wife'; AFI [Aus] Award nom [1987] for 'Warm Nights on a Slow Moving Train'; ACS 'Golden Tripod Award' [1987] for 'Fragments of War - The Story of Damien Parer'; ACS 'Milli' Award 'Australian Cinematographer of the Year' [1988], ACS 'Golden Tripod Award' [1988] & AFI [Aus] Award nom [1989] for 'Georgia'.
FILMS |
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1961 |
Зной/Znoy/Heat [Larisa Shepitko] b&w; cph: Vladimir Arkhangelsky; prod Kirghizfilm/VGIK |
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1962 |
?/Bibisara [Yuz Girshtein] ?; docudrama/?m; + efx ph |
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1964 |
Джура/Jura [Adolf Bergunker] ?; prod Kirghizfilm |
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1965 |
Перекличка/Pereklichka/Roll-Call [Daniil Khrabrovitsky] b&w; prod Tadjikfilm |
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1967 |
И никто другой/I nikto drugoy/And Nobody Else [Iosif Shulman] ?; prod Belarusfilm |
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1969 |
Гори, гори моя звезда/Gori, gori, moya zvezda/Shine, O! Shine, My Star/Shine Brightly, My Star/The Comedy About Iskremas [Aleksander Mitta] c; prod Mosfilm |
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1971 |
Вид на жительство/Vid na zhitel'stvo/Residence Permit [Omari Gvasaliya & Aleksander Stefanovich] b&w; prod Mosfilm |
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1972 |
Молчание доктора Ивенса/Molchaniye doktora Ivensa/The Silence of Dr. Evans/Doctor Evans' Silence [Budimir Metalnikov; creative dir: Sergei Bondarchuk] c; + efx ph; cph: Vladimir Bondarev; prod Mosfilm |
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1975 |
Красное яблоко/The Red Apple [Tolomush Okeyev] c; sfx ph; ph: Konstantin Orozaliev; prod Kirghizfilm |
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1977 |
Трясина/Tryasina/Netipichnaya istoriya/The Mire/Quagmire [Grigori Chukhraj] c; cph: Mikhail Demurov; prod Mosfilm |
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1981 |
Lonely Hearts [Paul Cox] c |
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1983 |
Man of Flowers [Paul Cox] c; 2uc: Nino Martinetti |
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1984 |
Touchstone [Robert Plasto-Lehner] 16mm/c; docudrama/?m; ep #1 of 'Frontiers'-series |
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1984 |
Anna [Gordon Glenn] 16mm/c; short/?m; cph: Ellery Ryan & Jaems Grant |
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1984 |
My First Wife [Paul Cox] c |
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1985 |
Cactus [Paul Cox] c |
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1986 |
Warm Nights on a Slow Moving Train [Bob Ellis] c; 2uc: Nino Martinetti |
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1988 |
Georgia/A Difficult Woman [Ben Lewin] c |
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1990 |
Struck by Lightning/Heartbreakers/Saltmarsh [Jerzy Domaradzki] c |
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1991 |
Diary of a Hit Man [Roy London] c |
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1993 |
H.M.A.V Bounty/Ol' Three-Eyes Is Back [John Steven Lasher] Kinopanorama (2.75:1)/c; doc/19m; + co-tech liaison; cph: John R. McLean; The length of the final film (3-strip) is estimated at 10m actual footage, plus a 3m prologue (center panel only), a film music overture (2m30s), end credits (3m) and exit music under one minute. The screenplay is structured around a cruise aboard 'The Bounty'. Additional footage will be of Australian beaches and a cricket match between Australia and England (never completed). Film stock is old daylight 'ortho' Sovcolor stock (around 16 ASA) and more recent Sovcolor stock. |
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1994 |
Urn [Miro Bilbrough] c; exp short/6m; addph: Joanne Parker |
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1998 |
Cas dluhu/A Time of Debts [Irena Pavlásková] c |
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2002 |
The Kinopanorama Experience [John Steven Lasher] Kinopanorama/c; doc/30m |
TELEVISION |
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1974 |
?/Tri dnia v Moskve/Three Days in Moscow [Aleksei Korenev] tvm/133m; prod Mosfilm |
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1981 |
Women of the Sun [ep #3 (57m) 'Nerida Anderson, 1939' dir by Stephen Wallace] 4-part doc series/16mm; cph: Ross Berryman; other ph: Dan Burstall (#1), Ian Dewhurst (#2) & Nino Martinetti (#4) |
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1982 |
Class of '39 [Frank Heimans] 3-part doc series/16mm |
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1984 |
Death and Destiny: A Journey Into Ancient Egypt [Paul Cox] doc/55m & 72m/16mm |
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1985 |
Winners [ep (48m) 'Just Friends' dir by Michael Pattinson & 'The Paper Boy' (49m) dir by Paul Cox] series/16mm |
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1985 |
Fran [Glenda Hambly] tvm/16mm; addph; ph: Jan Kenny |
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1985 |
Remember Me/Old Acquaintances [Lex Marinos] tvm/16mm; also released theatrically |
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1985 |
Handle with Care [Paul Cox] docudrama/54m/16mm |
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1985 |
The Tree of Man [treatment by Michael le Moignan & Larry Lucas] planned miniseries; unrealized |
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1985 |
Return to Eden [John Power, Arch Nicholson, a.o.] 22-part series, 1986; other ph: Martin McGrath & Murray Ware |
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1986 |
Black Futures [Yuri Sokol] 6-part doc series/16mm: ep #1 'Eora corroboree' [co-d: Michael Le Moignan & Barbara Chobocky; 59m; ph: Michael Edols], #2 'Building Dreams' [co-d: Michael Le Moignan; 56m], #3 'Getting Better' [co-d: Larry Lucas; 57m], #4 'Still Time', #5 'Reflections on Silver Screens' & #6 'The Land Owns Us' |
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1986 |
Fragments of War - The Story of Damien Parer [John Duigan] tvm/16mm |
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1989 |
Rods, Strings, Shadows, and Gloves [Lex Marinos] doc/30m |
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1993 |
Romanov [Yuri Sokol] doc/54m; for SBS-tv; + prod/co-scrpl |
MISCELLANEOUS |
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1971 |
Алые маки Иссык-Куля/Alyye maki Issyk-Kulya/The Red Poppies of Issyk-Kul [Bolotbek Shamshiyev] co-scrpl; ph: Viktor Osennikov |
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1986 |
Shark's Paradise [Michael Jenkins; tvm] visual superv; ph: Martin McGrath |
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1993 |
Chastity Truth and Kinopanorama [John Steven Lasher; doc/5m in Kinopanorama] assoc prod; ph: Sergei Rozhkov; only festival screening in March 1997; restored in 2002 |
DOCUMENTARIES AS DIRECTOR |
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1986 |
Black Futures [+ co-d/ph] see Television |
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1993 |
Romanov [+ prod/co-scrpl/ph] see Television |