Nikolai Izvolov
Production
- Born
- February 14, 1962 (age 64) · Kostroma, RSFSR, USSR, [now Russia]
Nikolai Izvolov (born in 1962 – Kostroma, USSR) is a Russian film historian and cinema theorist, researcher of film archives and specialist in reconstruction of the “lost” films. He's known by his reconstructions of Dziga Vertov's Anniversary of the Revolution (2018), The History of the Civil War (2021) and Man with a Movie Camera (2024). Author of the books Phenomenon of Film: History and Theory (2001) and Unknown Pages of Russian Avant-garde Cinema (2021). Since the beginning of the 1990s, he has been teaching the course Practice of Work in Film Archives for students of the Film Studies department in VGIK (All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography). In 1992, he collaborated with Chris Marker on the Alexander Medvedkin’s biopic The Last Bolshevik. Together with Natasha Drubek-Mayer he developed a creative method of film reconstruction ‘Hyperkino’ and applied it to the archives of Dziga Vertov, Alexander Medvedkin and Lev Kuleshov: Lenin Kino-Pravda (1996); Stop Thief! (1998); The Story of Tit… or the Tale of the Large Spoon (2000); Engineer Prite’s Project (2001); Alcoholism and Its Consequences (2001); Dokhunda (2006).
Known for
Behind the camera5
- 2024The Return of Vertov Director, Writer
- 2014Searching for the Lost Pochta Idea, Writer, Archival Footage Coordinator
- 2005Сукровица Writer
- 1921The History of the Civil War Archival Footage Coordinator, Producer, Other
- 1918Anniversary of the Revolution Archival Footage Coordinator, Producer, Other
Acting7
- 2024The Return of Vertov as Self - Russian film historian
- 2023A History of Russian Cinema. The Birth of the Myth. as Self - Russian film historian
- 2014Searching for the Lost Pochta