Deaf-and-dumb, Alexandre Pavlovitch Lobanov has been confined to a psychiatric hospital in Russia for the last fifty years. 
After a period of revolt, he retreats into absolute silence while developing exceptional pictorial production. 
Portrait of a creator of art brut.

7 minutes . HD cam . french - english . edit . Roselyne Petit c/o GLPIPA . Jola Kudela c/o Sparx . graphic design / Benjamin Rossignol c/o le Dynamo of Saint-Cloud .music /Alain Mouysset . with the help of Trafic production, Vladimir Gavrilov, Inye, Barbara Safarova . production abcd 2001

broadcast

.Festival of Clermont-Ferrand (February 2002)
.Festival of Cinéma du Réel / centre Georges Pompidou (March 2002) / 

Special award discerned
by the jury

by the Ministery of Foreign Affairs

.Rétrospective : ciné alternative (March 2002)
.Canal + and affiliated channels (2002)
.Ministery of Foreign Affairs, Paris
.High Museum of Art, Atlanta
.American Folk Art Museum, New York
.Collection de l’Art Brut, Lausanne
.American universities tour (September 2002) : 
Egyptian Theater of l’American Cinematheque, Los Angeles, Norman University, Oklahoma, New York University, New York, Columbia University, New York, Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York

.Festival of French-speaking Cinema in Acadia (September 2002)

.Rencontres de la Villette (October 2002)
.Fenêtre sur courts, festival de Dijon December 2002
.French Institute of London (7 March 2003)
.Le printemps des poêtes, Charleville-Mézières (11 March 2003)
.Festival International du Film sur l’Art (FIFA), Montreal (from 13 to 23 March 2003) Special award discerned by the jury.