DEATH OF AN EXTRA

A brief study of the unusual history of one old film frame.

MIKHAIL ZHELEZNIKOV

 

Born in Leningrad in 1972. Made films for ARTE and YLE, and for St. Petersburg Documentary Film Studio. 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 2012-2020 co-organized experimental film festival Kinodot. In 2015-2019 was teaching at St. Petersburg State Institute of Culture, in 2016-2021 at St. Petersburg New Cinema School, in 2019-2024 ran a non-fiction cinema workshop at St. Petersburg State University of Film and Television.
 

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