Running on Cargo
Ilya V. Abulkhanov *
✕ Index
The Black Box
Concept & Treatment for the opening TV Titles depicting an abstract mental representation of the subconscious in which disconnected images emerge. Images and content represented as signs that cover up and represent the unconscious.

The surreality of the piece, or its uncomfortable comprehensibility was intended to represent the unrepresentable in abstract, as well as subjective terms.
Filed under ConceptsCreative DirectionDesignPrologue Films
IMAX
— "Cinema Reimagined"
Pussy Riot ‘Hangerz’ featuring Vic Mensa and JunglePussy
— * / Fundamentalist abortion-bans are about hijacking control and ownership of women's bodies.
Film v.02 No.-18 (2015)
— The perspective shifts when we consider that every production is at the same time self-production. If modern society changes the way it produces itself, it...
Skyscraper (2018) - Prologue Film
Skyscraper (2018) - 'Main-on-End'
— Film Title Sequence, created for Rawson Marshall Thurber's film Skyscraper. The sequence journeys along the extinguishing paths of fire bursting through the...
iWatch — Apple
Meet iPhone X — Apple
Portraits (2014)
— Historical critical attitude must be experimental.
The Washing Society
— While working on the layout as well as typographical choices for the main titles, I wanted to test if the credits, letters and their arrangements could be...
Title Design for The Story of OJ
— The Mill worked with JAY-Z, Roc Nation and Director Mark Romanek to create the animated music video for ‘The Story of OJ’, a track off JAY-Z’s hotly antic...
Film v.04 10:30 - *end sequence
Tip of My Tongue
— Opening Film Title Sequence, made with support from a Guggenheim Fellowship in the Creative Arts. Interspersed with poetry and flashes of archival footage, this...
Posters for Tip of My Tongue
— To mark her 50th birthday, filmmaker Lynne Sachs gathers a group of her contemporaries—all New Yorkers but originally hailing from all corners of the globe—for a...
Rihanna: "Sledgehammer" (2016)
— Creative Direction for the music video, Rihanna "Sledgehammer" - a spectacular, large and colorful intergalactic video for Mill+, Paramount Pictures, Maavven...
Destiny: Opening Cinematic (2014)
— Cinematic Film for the video game franchise, Destiny. Directors Ilya V. Abulkhanov & Simon Clowes collaborate with Bungie to design and direct the opening film...
X-MEN: Apocalypse (2016)
— Opening Film Title Sequence that journeys through an interconnected time tunnel abstractly representing the fall and rise of civilizations.
Little Men (2015)
— Opening Film Title Sequence created for Ira Sach's film about a 14 year old boy growing up in Brooklyn, New York.
MTV: Video Music Awards (2009)
— Live Action Broadcast Package set in an altered reality of New York City created as a stylistic extrapolation and homage to the 2009 OFFF Titles created for the...
Married Life (2007)
— Opening Film Title Sequence created for Ira Sach's film about marriage and adultery, visually represented through stylistic constructions and referrals to the 1940s...
Zoolander 2 Trailer (2015)
— What is this?! A trailer for ants?!
X-MEN: Days Of Future Past (2014)
— Opening Film Title Sequence that journeys through an interconnected tunnel abstractly representing the origin of mutant DNA strands and the formation process of...
OFFF (2009)
— Live Action Short Film for the design conference, OFFF held in Oeiras, Portugal. The idea was to make something cinematic, international and ambiguously...
Iron Man 1 (2008)
— Film Title Sequence designed and animated in collaboration with Danny Yount.
Iron Man 2 (2010): Reel
— Interactive Holographic UI & Display Interfaces for over 20 minutes of shots for Marvel's Iron Man 2, as well as other experimental work in...
MTV: Video Music Awards (2008)
— Live Action Broadcast Package produced for the MTV Video Music Awards, 2008 that depicts a real life interpretation of MTV's iconic Moon Man, as well an overall...
RocknRolla (2008)
— Opening Film Title Sequence and Production Logo Animation for Guy Ritche's Production Company, Toff Guy Films.
Fred Claus (2007) / v.02
— Concept & Treatment for the Opening Film Title Sequence illustrating the adventure of Santa Clause through space, time and beyond.
Blind Wink Productions (2010)
— Production Logo Identity created for Gore Verbinski's Blind Wink Productions.
MTV: Movie Awards (2009)
— Live Action Broadcast Package produced for the 2009 MTV Movie Awards that transforms the iconic MTV Popcorn Statue into a real life Popcorn Man beginning with the...
Iron Man 1 (2008): Display Graphics
— User Interface Design development for Marvel's Studios Iron Man 1.