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Black Box
Directed by Anton Dyakov
Country Norway
Year 2026
Duration 9′
An elderly photographer examines a series of photographs, trying to reconnect the broken thread of memory with the people depicted in them — who they were, how they lived, where they are now. A quiet requiem for a bygone era and those who embodied it — a reflection on the futility of trying to preserve people in memory exactly as they truly were.
Anton Dyakov
Anton Dyakov is a Russian animator, director, screenwriter, and artist born on March 1, 1980, in Almaty, Kazakhstan. He gained international recognition with the Oscar-nominated animated short film BoxBallet (2020), which tells the wordless love story between a boxer and a ballerina. The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 2022.
