Mikhail Zheleznikov

Mikhail Zheleznikov

Known for

Directing

Born

March 21, 1972 (age 54)

Birthplace

Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR (now St. Petersburg, Russia)

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 teac...

Best known work

The Birth of Music
The Birth of Music
2010
Reed
Reed
2014
Inversion
Inversion
2022
On Pause
On Pause
2012
Death of an Extra
Death of an Extra
2024
Once Upon a Time in the USSR
Once Upon a Time in the USSR
2016
Collection N1
Collection N1
2006
Children of Corn
Children of Corn
2004
For Home Viewing
For Home Viewing
2009
Glass On a Thin Leg
Glass On a Thin Leg
2019

Filmography

  1. 2026

    Реконструкция

    Director

  2. 2025

  3. 2024

  4. 2023

    The Patient

    Producer

  5. 2023

    The Ritual

    Director

  6. 2022

    Inversion

    Director

  7. 2020

    Revision

    Director

  8. 2019

    18

    Director

  9. 2019

  10. 2018

    Pebbles

    Director

  11. 2016

  12. 2014

    Reed

    Director

  13. 2012

    On Pause

    Director

  14. 2012

  15. 2010

  16. 2010

    Together

    Editor, Director

  17. 2009

  18. 2008

    The Booth

    Director

  19. 2006

  20. 2004

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