Moscow Optical Workshop

LOMO footage series

Iron Winter, 2025, 89min, by Kasimir Burgess

Shot on LOMO Classic '70 Std Speeds which survived -40°С (–40°F)! The crew behind endured below freezing temperatures, wolf territory, and iced gear to capture a story the world was about to lose...

Lenses used, in native housings(!):
OKS3-22-1 (22mm)
OKS 7-28-1 (28mm)
OKS 11-35-1 (35mm)
OKS 1-50-6 (50mm)
OKS 6-75-1 (75mm)

DP Benjamin Bryan
Director Kasimir Burgess

"Condensation was an issue on all of our lenses, drones included, just because it was so warm in our ger and so cold outside, sometimes minus 40 and lower...Wherever we point the camera, it’s like a painting. We had beautiful old Russian lenses that helped with a broken-down, distressed kind of look, not a crisp digital Canon look. There’s a grainy, impressionistic kind of feeling which felt right because the ger that we were filming in was hundreds of years old and the clothes they were wearing were so ripped and worn from sweat and bloodstains from all the work. It felt like we could mirror that to some degree."
- from “A Brutal Kind of Beauty” review by "Kasimir Burgess on His Visions du Réel-Premiering ‘Iron Winter’".

"This tension between old and new, between moving forward and holding onto the past, is the crux of the film. Shooting through older, slightly distressed lenses, cinematographer Benjamin Bryan drinks in the glorious landscape of timeless mountains and endless horizons...This is a process of initiation for the young man, a baptism of fire that may end up pushing him in the opposite direction. "
— from " ‘Iron Winter’ review: Young Mongolian herdsmen drive into an extreme climate event" By .baughan

Production:
International sales:
Producers: , Chris Kamen, Morgan Wright
Writers: , Ed Cavanough
CinemaRepeater Productions
International sales: Bonsai Films, Jonathan Page
Producers: Ben Golotta, Chris Kamen, Morgan Wright
Writers: Kasimir Burgess, Ed Cavanough
Cinematography: Benjamin Bryan
Editing: Kasimir Burgess, Kenny Ang
Music: Luke Altmann