
Person
Mikhail Zheleznikov
Directing · Born 1972-03-21 · 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 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

The Birth of Music
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Revision
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Death of an Extra
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Children of Corn
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For Home Viewing
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Pebbles
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Reed
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On Pause
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The Palace Sq∞are
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Together
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Filmography
- 2025The Palace Sq∞areDirector
- 2024Death of an ExtraDirector
- 2023The PatientProducer
- 2023The RitualDirector
- 2022InversionDirector
- 2020RevisionDirector
- 201918Director
- 2019Glass On a Thin LegDirector
- 2018PebblesDirector
- 2016Once Upon a Time in the USSRDirector
- 2014ReedDirector
- 2012On PauseDirector
- 2012Gillyflower Smells of PerfumeDirector
- 2010The Birth of MusicEditor
- 2010TogetherEditor
- 2009For Home ViewingDirector
- 2008The BoothDirector
- 2006Collection N1Director
- 2004Children of CornDirector
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