Artist

Mikhail Zheleznikov

Mikhail Zheleznikov was born in Leningrad in 1972. Made episodes for ARTE and YLE, films for 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). In 2012 co-created My America exhibition in the Museum of the Moving Image, produced by CEC ArtsLink. Since 2011 curates experimental short film competition In Silico at Message To Man film festival. Within the frameworks of Message to Man curated and organized numerous special programs, screenings and events, e.g. John Smith retrospective in 2012, Helena Třeštíková retrospective in 2017, Nordic Avant-Garde program and video art exhibition Memories of Landscape curated by Martin Grennberger in 2019, and KIBERGLAZ neural film laboratory dedicated to Dziga Vertov with practical workshop curated by Andrea Gatopoulos in 2024. In 2012-2020 co-curated experimental film festival Kinodot. In 2019 was one of the curators of experimental project Per Forma 2 Stage at the Big Drama Theater. In 2015-2019 was teaching at St. Petersburg State Institute of Culture, in 2016-2021 in St. Petersburg New Cinema School, in 2019-2024 taught documentary filmmaking at St. Petersburg State University of Film and Television.

Artist Code: 2175

Videography

The Ritual

2023, 14:07 minutes, B&W, No dialogue, with background audio

The Death of an Extra

2023, 09:55 minutes, B&W and colour, Russian