Director

Mikhail Zheleznikov

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Directed movies: 8Directed series: 0All crew credits: 10

TMDB ID: 1433551

IMDb ID: nm1966334

Known for: Directing

Born: March 21, 1972

Age: 53

Place of birth: Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR (now St. Petersburg, Russia)

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 2010 - 2025

Years active: 16

Also known as

Михаил Железников

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Biography

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.

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