Mikhail Zheleznikov
Directing
- Born
- March 21, 1972 (age 54) · Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR (now St. Petersburg, Russia)
Mikhail Zheleznikov (Russian: Михаил Железников; born 21 March 1972; Leningrad) is a Russian documentary filmmaker. Made films for ARTE and YLE, Corona Films, and St. Petersburg Documentary Film Studio. Participant and jury member of various international film festivals. His video works have been exhibited at modern art museum Kiasma (Helsinki, Finland), Museum of the Moving Image (New York, USA), The National Art Center (Tokyo, Japan), Kunst Museum Bonn (Germany), Museum of Modern Art Erarta (St. Petersburg, Russia). Since 2011 curates experimental short film competition In Silico at Message To Man film festival. In 2012 co-organized experimental film festival Kinodot. In 2015-2019 was teaching at St. Petersburg State Institute of Culture, in 2016-2021 in St. Petersburg New Cinema School. In 2019 was one of the curators of experimental project Per Forma 2 Stage at the Big Drama Theater. Since 2019 teaches documentary filmmaking at St. Petersburg State University of Film and Television.
Known for
Behind the camera20
- 2026Реконструкция Director
- 2025The Palace Sq∞are Director
- 2024Death of an Extra Director
- 2023The Patient Producer
- 2023The Ritual Director
- 2022Inversion Director
- 2020Revision Director
- 201918 Director
- 2019Glass On a Thin Leg Director
- 2018Pebbles Director