Motionographer® Ivan Alkhovskiy aka Forest Elk

NYC artist Ivan Alkhovskiy crafts a haunting 2D short film inspired by Sergei Esenin’s poetry, I Will Not Be Young Again. A young man confronts youth’s existential unraveling—his vibrant inner world decaying into grayscale. Through hand-drawn, kinetic animation, characters splinter into jagged forms; environments bleed to voids. Merging analog grit with digital precision, Alkhovskiy uses stark contrasts: crimson flares in desaturated palettes, erratic typography slicing serene scenes.Motion pulses with restless energy—each frame resisting stillness. Known for commercial work, Alkhovskiy embraces raw storytelling here: “Loss isn’t an event—it’s a slow leak.”