Film engineer Joseph Barsky died on his 88th birthday

Film engineer, honored worker of culture of Russia Joseph Barsky died on October 18, the day of his 88th birthday, said the Union of cinematographers of Russia.

Farewell to him will be held on October 22 at 13:00 at the address: Moscow, Savelovsky passage, house 10, building 1, "Ritual".

“Colleague filmmakers will forever remember him as a brilliant professional and connoisseur of his craft, an impeccable organizer of film production, a principled, deeply decent person,” the statement reads.

Barsky was born on October 18, 1938. Graduated from the Moscow Institute of Chemical Engineering, since 1961 he worked in the system of cinematography. He was an engineer of the Film Photography Research Institute (NIKFI), chief engineer of the Moskinap plant and the Central Documentary Film Studio.

Then Barsky headed JSC "Kinotechnics", created in May 1990 to provide film technical services to film crews. From 1990 to 2007, the company participated in the filming of more than 200 feature films, including “Winter Cherry-2”, “Liberty Sisters”, “Weary of the Sun”, “Brother-2”, “Penny” and “Cuckoo”, as well as in the creation of more than 2 thousand clips, commercials and other projects.

From 1998 to 2017, Barsky served as President of the Guild of Film Technicians of the Union of Cinematographers of Russia. He was a candidate of technical sciences, the author of several dozen articles on the technique and technologies of film production and the owner of more than ten copyright certificates. He was awarded the Order of Honor.