Mikhail Zheleznikov

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1972-03-21 (52 years old)

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

Also Known As Михаил Железников

Mikhail Zheleznikov

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.

Known For

Director

2024
Death of an Extra

as Director

2023
The Ritual

as Director

2022
Inversion

as Director

2020
Revision

as Director

2019
2019
18

as Director

2018
Pebbles

as Director

2014
Reed

as Director

2012
On Pause

as Director

2010
Together

as Director

2009
For Home Viewing

as Director

2008
The Booth

as Director

2006
Collection N1

as Director

2004
Children of Corn

as Director

Producer

2023
The Patient

as Producer

Editor

2010
Together

as Editor