Wondrous Light or “the World Inside Out” in the Author’s Animation by Valentin Olshvang

The article analyzes the work of an outstanding modern director of animated films, mainly author’s, Valentin Alekseyevich Olshvang on the example of his several films. The choice of films is dictated by their artistic and aesthetic, as well as technological component, where the director skillfully models the structure of his paintings, masterfully combining visual, sound and semantic series into a single whole. The subject of the study is a special interweaving of the visual and dramatic components of the director’s films, subordinated to the concept that can be described as “the world inside out”, in which the essence of love always carries destruction, and cannot be conflict-free. Through the analysis of the semantic layers of films, artistic and technological solutions of paintings, visual and expressive means used by Olschwang in the work, it was revealed that the most important aspect and factor of mediation for the release of creative imagination is the visual and technological component of the director’s creativity. It is proved the specificity of V. Olshvang’s works as characteristic for the author’s animation of the 90s of the last century — the beginning of this one. The analysis of the artistic and technological solutions of the selected paintings in the article is of particular interest for studying the work of the director, who uses various materials and methods of shooting in attempts to create a luminous, transparent image on the screen. The novelty of the research is in the consideration of V. Olshvang’s work as an original set of various visual and expressive techniques for the most accurate way of expressing the author’s idea.