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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)
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- “Stanislavsky and the Russian Theatre” – The Premiere and some after thoughts. May 8, 2011
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- Stanislavski and the Contemporary Theatre. Lecture by Anatoly Smeliansky March 13, 2011
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- “Stanislavsky and the Russian Avant-garde”. Release date soon. January 24, 2011
- Stanislavsky and Russian Theatre – sound recording narration complete January 6, 2011
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Returned from the UK a few days ago after a three week trip there, partly business partly pleasure. Pleasure was restricted due to constant rain so the business side of things took precedence. Arranged a meeting with Paul Fryer of The … Continue reading
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Working on the shooting script of the Fairground Booth once again after a brief lull. On Friday evening we attended an exhibition of Japanese contemporary art (micropop) at the State Centre of Contemporary Art in Moscow as part of the 4th Moscow Bienalle which is taking place here. … Continue reading
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Last few days have been about development of new projects or at any rate thinking about this subject. That’s not strictly true as some work has been going on. Its a sunny day in Moscow and not much work … Continue reading
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A long time has passed, or so it seems, since completing the film “Stanislavsky and the Russian Theatre” and a process of reflection has replaced the frenetic rush to finish the film in time for the premiere and get it released … Continue reading
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Finally, after much tweaking and adjusting, the documentary film “Stanislavsky and the Russian Theatre” has been released on DVD after a successful launch and premiere at the Barn Theatre of the Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performence. The premiere … Continue reading
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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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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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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
David Burliuk and the Japanese Avant-garde "David Burliuk and the Japanese Avant-garde" was released on DVD in the autumn of 2007. The film charts the work of the Russian futurist David Burliuk in Japan. After he left Russia during the … Continue reading
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Where did the series about the Russian Avant-garde begin, is a question I am asked from time to time. I had been working as a consultant for a documentary film company in Russia advising them about foreign distribution for their … Continue reading
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