Monthly Archives: January 2011

Entering the final stages of the editing process on the documentary film about Stanislavsky “Stanislavsky and Russian Theatre”. Still much work to do but I am starting to think about a release date sometime in late February, perhaps before. I’m … Continue reading →

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Posted on January 24, 2011 by Michael Craig

An exhibition, 3D Visions, at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography is an exploration of the practice of giving flat images the illusion of depth. 3D is the new by word in film making and this article casts a new light … Continue reading →

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Posted on January 17, 2011 by Michael Craig

Building the Revolution: Soviet Art and Architecture 1915-1935 Oct 29-Jan 22 2012 Royal Academy of Arts, Piccadilly, London, W1J OBD Full details & map Exam ination of Russian avant-garde architecture which was created during a period of energy and optimism at … Continue reading →

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Posted on January 16, 2011 by Michael Craig

Michael Craig - Independent Film Maker

Michael Craig is a director and producer of independent films and lives and works in Moscow. He founded Copernicus Films which has produced the arts documentary series: "The Russian Avant-garde - Renaissance or Revolution", a series of six films about the Russian Avant-garde of the 1920s and 30s.

After a decade working in the film industry in the UK, mostly on the packaging of feature films for international prodcution companies and later in the financial and production aspects of feature films, he travelled to Moscow in 1995 to make films and write where he has lived and worked ever since. He started making his first documentary film about Alexander Rodchenko in 1998 and from this experience embarked on series of films about the Russian Avant-garde of the 1920s and 30s. Three more films in the series followed:"Architecture and the Russian Avant-garde and , "Meyerhold, Theatre and the Russian Avant-garde" and "Mayakovsky" . Two further films have now been completed "David Burliuk and the Japanese Avant-garde, with locations in Moscow Tokyo and Kyoto and a 6th film "Kandinsky and the Russian House" shot in Germany and Russia. Michael Craig returned to Japan for two 3 month periods to shoot a film about Japanese culture and art. The project is called Japan Philosophical Landscapes and is being released in short episodes on the internet-Click Here to Watch for Free.In 2011 a documentary about the Russian theatre director and founder of MXAT (The Moscow Art Theatre)