Author Alena Lodkina

Alena Lodkina

Alena Lodkina is a filmmaker based in Melbourne. She has made fiction and documentary short films that have been screened around the world, and her debut feature Strange Colours premiered at Venice Film Festival 2017. Her writing on film has appeared in 4:3 Journal and Fireflies.

A Long Happy Life

1966: A Long Happy Life (Gennady Shpalikov)

December 2017

100 Years of Soviet Cinema

Dangerous Lyrical: A Long Happy Life (Gennady Shpalikov, 1966) Not much really happened: a man and a woman met by chance on a bus heading to a regular provincial town. Later that evening, they met again in a t...