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Guest: Eugene Kotlyarenko - The Code (2024)

24.02’25
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In his latest film The Code, filmmaker Eugene Kotlyarenko both embraces and wrestles with the 21st century crisis of cinematic language.

A contemporary screwball comedy (defined as a sex comedy without the sex by film critic Andrew Sarris), filmed with over 70 digital cameras, The Code shoots an increasingly uncinematic world, where the aesthetic pleasures of light and sound are being reduced to unattractive functions.

The film rejoices in its cynical contempt of digitized life but, when push comes to shove, The Code can’t help but reveal its covert romantic heart. (Mattijs Driesen)

In the presence of filmmaker Eugene Kotlyarenko

→ Program and Q&A: Chloë Delanghe & Mattijs Driesen

In collaboration with atelier Mixed Media, LUCA School of Arts Gent


Eugene Kotlyarenko

The Code

US • 2024 • 98' • colour • digital • en

A sexless couple, paranoid about the status of their relationship, embraces surveillance, spying and performance as a means to fall in love again, in this absurd, high-concept comedy.

Eugene Kotlyarenko (0s & 1s, Spree) was born in 1986 in Odessa, Ukraine. Based in LA, he has made six feature films exploring love, identity and cultural madness in the age of social media.

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The Code © Visit Films

Eugene Kotlyarenko

The Code

US • 2024 • 98' • colour • digital • en