NEWS
January 27, 2022
On the day of her Angel, Saint Nina - Baptist of Georgia, TV Gallery’s
Founding Director Nina Zaretskaya received this gift from the festival CARE:
trophy and certificate presenting "Married to Math" the award for
BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT
January 23, 2022
Dear Nina,
Congratulations! Your film has something to tell.
MARRIED TO MATH is officially among our Monthly Picks!
We wish you the best, with the competition and beyond,
To filmmakers with love,
The Rome Prisma Film Awards
January 21, 2022
Dear Nina,
The film "Married To Math" was selected for the Miami Indie Film Awards.
January 18, 2022
Dear Nina,
Congratulations!
Your film "Married To Math" has been selected for FLICKFAIR Film Festival.
December 31, 2021
The last good news on the last day of the past 2021.
Dear Nina,
Your film "Married To Math" is included in the competition of LA Indies.
December 3, 2021
The film "Married To Math" was selected for the virtual Boston Independent Film Awards.
November 15, 2021
The film "Married To Math" was selected for the Toronto International Women Film Festival.
November 15, 2021
The film "Married To Math" became the winner of the CARE Awards as BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY.
November 9, 2021
The film "Married To Math" was selected for the CARE Awards as Finalist.
November 5, 2021
Our film MARRIED TO MATH was chosen for Special Screenings
at Russian-British Sochi International Film Festival & Awards.
October 23, 2021
Film "Magdalena" which participated in the FRESH LOOK Program
of the Annual 14th RUSDOCFILMFEST - 2021 in New York,
got the award of the Best Short Film
October 6, 2021
The film Magdalena at the 14th RusDocFilmFest in New York.
When: Wed 20 (Fresh Look program is free)
https://rusdocfilmfest.org/movies-2021/#fresh-look
October 3, 2021
October 1, 2021
Dear Nina,
Congratulations!
CARE Awards selected your film "Married To Math" to be included in the festival.
It's like déjà vu all over again...
We were desperately hoping to have a live event this year, but after careful consideration of these factors, we decided to transition the 2021 CARE Awards festival scheduled for November from an in-person event to a virtual event.
September 29, 2021
The film "Married To Math" was selected for the First Moscow International Film Festival.
Because of Covid-19 we can only host the festival online this time: online screening 3rd - 4th October 2021.
September 27, 2021
Dear Nina Zaretskaya:
Congratulations!
Your film "MARRIED TO MATH" is officially selected for SFNCFF Final.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we have to make a difficult decision: the 8th San Francisco International New Concept Film Festival will be a virtual film festival.
Festival schedule:
October 27-31, 2021: Selected Films Screening.
October 31, 2021: Award-winning Announcement and Closing Ceremony.
September 26, 2021
September 19, 2021
Hi Nina,
Yay! Your film [Married To Math] is part of the official selection of the 4th FilmArte Festival in Berlin. How exciting is this? Your creation will be screened in Berlin and will also be considered for our awards.
Detailed information on the website https://filmartefestival.com/
September 14, 2021
The film Married To Math has been accepted as a MosFilmFest Official Selection.
The documentary will be shown in English with Russian subtitles on September 16 from 19:00 to 21:00 Moscow time in the State Darwin Museum in Moscow.
Detailed information on the website http://mosfilmfest.ru/en/about/
July 13, 2021
June 14, 2021
Dear Nina,
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
We are incredibly proud to announce that your amazing project is an Award Winner at the VEGAS MOVIE AWARDS™, June edition.
You've been awarded a prize in the following categories:
- BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT - Award of Merit
- BEST POSTER - Award of Merit
June 4, 2021
Dear Nina,
CONGRATULATIONS!
We are extremely pleased to inform you, that your documentary Married To Math has just been accepted as a Vegas Movie Awards™ Official Selection.
November 2020
Test screenings of the film "MARRIED TO MATH" took place.
REVIEWS AND COMMENTS OF SOME PARTICIPANTS:
Congratulations, a wonderful film: deep and captivating (a rare combination), beautiful and lyrical, touching the soul with the art of Yana Semenovich and music of Alexey Shor! The story of three mathematicians with incredible artistic achievements is a fascinating screenplay turned into a film-prophecy due to the narrative from the novel by Asya Semenovich, who predicted the current pandemic long before its appearance.
Thanks to the director of the film, Nina Zaretskaya, and all the participants!
Solomon Volkov,
Culturologist, musicologist
I just watched Nina Zaretskaya’s newly re-edited version of her film Married to Math. With a few simple tweets, here and there, Nina enhanced its beauty and power, as only a true artist can do, by 1000%.
Married to Math is a thrilling 17-minute cinematic journey infused with beautifully composed eye-popping images and heaven-bound music driven by personal real-life narratives, all deliciously wrapped in a mesmerizing otherworldly story from Fire of the Dark Triad.
Now it’s your chance to watch this video as it is making the rounds at various film festivals. It is truly awesome!
Edward Rubin,
Writer, Art Critic, Curator
Dear Eddy and Nina,
Eddy - always THANK YOU for sending out interesting suggestions for us to look at and listen to. You are very generous.
A friend and I just watched the new version of Nina's re-edited film of Married to Math. Alexey, Yana and Asya's film holds great interest. Neuro Worlds and Singularity in space are always fascinating subjects to ponder and roam around in.
We both found the drawings to be lyrical with fanciful color and gracefully animated. The music was a perfect choice to pair with the art and was as important as the visuals.
We didn't see the first version and were happy to see this one.
Thanks again for sending it,
Barbara
Barbara Nessim,
Artist
www.barbaranessim.com
Thank you for so much beauty!
Helen Livingston,
Artist
NC
Movie Is a Masterpiece!
What a smart connection between math and art! Math is with us from the moment we are born to the moment of our death. We count everything and everywhere, though, sometimes, we don't suspect we are counting.
I like the presentation of each character, his or her history, the art, and the connection with math. It is a romance to connect paintings + music + stories! And there is love everywhere! I feel and smell love in each episode of Nina's movie. It looks gorgeous, it sounds gorgeous, and the stories captured my heart.
Valentina Bondarenko,
Writer, Artist
Nina Zaretskaya’s documentary Married to Math is captivating and hypnotically lyric. It introduces the viewers to the lives and works of three Russian mathematicians' personal experiences by unveiling a dimension where artistic oeuvre is married, as the title highlights, to science.
Zaretskaya confers to the narration a very dynamic flow by beautifully interwoven colorful images of artworks, music, and a narrating voice over with black and white close-ups of the three main characters recollecting their journeys of becoming mathematicians and while also pursuing an artistic career. Worth noting too is the clever use of the above-mentioned components to create an element of surprise to the narration when it is revealed that these pieces are fragments taken from original creations by the three scientists.
I only wish Zaretskaya will be able to produce a longer version of it to expand the storytelling of such fascinating characters. Want More of Magic!
Dr. Cristina Morandi,
Art Historian, Curator
The way I understand this film is that it presents several people who are heavily involved with 2 interests that are very different in the limits of thinking/imagination. These people are unique because they 'live' comfortably in 2 worlds without seemingly any contradiction: the worlds of Math/Science and the world of 'Art.'
M/S have a rigorous and unyielding basis of fact; Art is/can/should be performed without ANY restrictions or rules. Exact opposites. The characters are unusual because they can co-exist 'inside' both disciplines, without any apparent difficulty. M/S have rules that cannot be ignored; Art best exists without any boundaries.
It's just my opinion, but some of the artworks shown seem to have machine/computer-generated images...especially the 'symmetrical' pieces. Creativity, artistry & imagination are NOT precluded by the use of 'unnatural' means of production. An artist uses his hands and his mind... but, it doesn't make an artwork less 'artsy' if a machine under the control of a person is used to generate an image, etc.
The artwork shown was quite interesting & stimulating, as was the musical accompaniment... certainly well worth experiencing!
Hank Bartolf,
Retired Media Director in Advertising
I was asked to comment on "Married to Math" as a mathematician who is very fond of piano (and art). My comments are more in that vein, than comments on the movie as a movie.
I was looking for a movie that added insight into what the appeal is of art and music to a mathematician. Other than occasional comments, such as about Bach, I found the movie lacking.
Yana Semenovich is an artist and a mathematician. Her art is very abstract and was tied to something called 'mirror worlds' which I am unfamiliar with. I am familiar with other links between art and mathematics (see the excellent lay book Chaos by James Gleick) where pictures arising out of the solution of non-linear equations are graphed and produce amazing and complex pictures (Mandelbrot constructs). Gleick's book ties these pictures to complex problems in mathematics which lead to beautiful art. Examples from common topics like weather prediction are contained in the book. I was hoping for something more along the line that he discussed in his book as a motivation for Yana's art from her mathematical background. I didn't find that in a satisfying way.
Alexey Shor is a musician and mathematician. I enjoyed his music and ballet. But again, I found the movie didn't tie his music to his mathematics. There were some comments about Pythagoras and Bach's appeal to mathematicians, but they were very cursory. Ever since I started playing Bach with Elena Bartolf, I've found myself drawn into the ingenious structure of Bach's counterpoint in his Fugues and Inventions and from there into other great musicians' structural development (e.g. Mozart's Jupiter Symphony). I would have loved to have heard a mathematician's exposition of this, but that was lacking in the movie.
Asya Semenovich is a writer and a mathematician. It felt as though her writing was science fiction with a mathematician as a main character. I have no comment.
So, to sum up, my comments really are along what I would have liked to have seen from the movie as a mathematician with interest in these topics and not about the movie per se.
David Burman,
Mathematician
Hi Nina,
I watched your film last night and very much enjoyed it! Visually beautiful, great music and stories, engaging, intriguing narration and not too long. Very original and thought provoking theme. The edits make it crisper and cleaner and move along very nicely.
Paul Doty,
Businessman
Hi,
Thanks for sharing this. I am fascinated by the art, the music, the novel and the artists' life stories. Critique is simply to shorten the silent periods right at the beginning, 0 - 0:40 and before 1:05 - 1:34. The drawings and figures are very complex. I have never seen so much 'entropy', for lack of a better word, in the images.
David Dickerman,
Philosopher, Writer
Nina,
Watched and loved!!! Happy to write something for your web site. I am so grateful to have met you and to get to experience your wonderful documentary vision.
Nancy Kempf,
Art Curator, Art & Film Critic
myownprivatecinema.org
Just watched MARRIED TO MATH - stunning! Fabulous! Totally wonderful!
Nina, you have been working on this in the past year? It is wonderful! Congrats on getting it into film festivals!
Totally interesting, loved it entirely!
Gayle Goodman,
Promoter, PR specialist
GGPR & Social
Twitter.com/GayleGoodman
Mesmerizing! The film makes you THINK. Think twice before you come to a conclusion. I find it most interesting.
Vladimir Zvyagin,
Professor of International Politics and Communication at Globe Institute of Technology in Manhattan, NY;
Associate Member of the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
I have just finished watching the short movie Married to Math: one of the most enlightening cultural experiences I’ve had in years. This film works on several levels at once. But in its essence, it is a movie about synthesis. At the most basic level, it is the story of three Russian émigré scientists who, after moving to the United States, synthesized the experience of two great cultures in their work. On a higher level, it is a film about the synthesis of art and mathematics achieved through the outstanding music of Shor and the visually astonishing works of Yana Semenovich, perfectly framed by the mind-blowing narrative from the work of Asya Semenovich: her book Fire of the Dark Triad is a perfectly timed, incredibly smart page turner — a real must-read! And finally, the film itself is a splendid example of the synthesis of high culture, science and art.
Boris Lokshin,
Film and cultural critic
This is an absolutely charming film on the eternal topic "truth and beauty". Three highly successful professional mathematicians, at the height of their careers, pivot and pursue their passions in music composition, visual art, and creative writing, breaking free from the procrustean confines of the purest of the sciences.
Yuri Tschinkel,
Professor of Mathematics, New York University
Executive producer of the documentary "Colors of Math"
I thoroughly enjoyed this movie. It weaves a beautiful common thread through the fate of three brilliant people, gifted along multiple dimensions but choosing math as their first path in the ex Soviet Union. Only later do they express their creativity in other realms, art, music, literature. A very timely lesson to learn… It beautifully stages the artwork of the protagonists and thus gives a picture of the rational and the emotional, on the background of politics and … life.
Julia Kempe,
Director, Center for Data Science, New York University
Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics
September 11th, 2020
19 YEARS PASSED SINCE THE DAY THE TOWERS FELL…
July 2020
Our latest film “MARRIED TO MATH” (Dir. Nina Zaretskaya) was selected to participate in a very prestigious Film Festival.
Dear Nina:
Congratulations! It is my pleasure to inform you that your submitted film “MARRIED TO MATH” has been selected for acceptance for the 2020 Flickers’ Rhode Island International Film Festival, taking place August 4th-9th. This year will mark the 38th Anniversary of Flickers and RIIFF 2020 promises to be our most dynamic festival to date. After careful review by our adjudication team, your film has been chosen from over 6,500 submissions from more than 91 countries.
July 2020
We have finished the production of our new film “MARRIED TO MATH” (Dir. Nina Zaretskaya).
Synopsis
Married to Math is a 17-minute video film profiling the extraordinarily creative lives of three U.S. mathematicians, all from the ex-USSR, in the vibrant fields of visual arts, music, and literature. The film, with the power of math in mind, is based on the geometric artworks of Yana Semenovich (2009 – 2019), the classical-sounding music of modern composer Alexey Shor (2014 – 2018), and the mirrored worlds of Asya Semenovich’s science-fiction novel The Fire of the Dark Triad (2019) which uncannily prophesied the emergence of our current COVID-19 pandemic.
June 2019
2019 Mobile Phone Filmmaking
Global Short Film Awards: Andres Aquino, Founder & Director
Mobile Phone Filmmaking: Prof. Karl Bardosh, Artistic Director
43 films were selected as FINALISTS from 7 countries:
India, China, USA, Hungary, Russia, France and Latvia
JURY:
Prof. Karl Bardosh, President (USA)
Sandeep Marwah, Co-President (India)
Mark Berry, Co-President (Canada)
Yuanyuan Chen, Member (China)
Nanding Mendez, Member (USA)
Gogoia Sampaio, Member, Brazil
2019 AWARD WINNERS:
BEST FILM: Magdalena by Nina Zaretskaya (Russia/USA)
