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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
- “Stanislavsky and the Russian Theatre” – The Premiere and some after thoughts. May 8, 2011
- Release of DVD “Stanislavsky and the Russian Theatre” May 1, 2011
- Premiere of “Stanislavsky and the Russian Theatre” April 11, 2011
- Stanislavsky and the Russian Theatre – release date March 16, 2011
- Stanislavski and the Contemporary Theatre. Lecture by Anatoly Smeliansky March 13, 2011
- “Stanislavsky and Russian Theatre” Film Approaching Completion. February 25, 2011
- “Stanislavsky and the Russian Avant-garde”. Release date soon. January 24, 2011
- Stanislavsky and Russian Theatre – sound recording narration complete January 6, 2011
- Stanislavsky film-progress report December 29, 2010
- Winter Editing – “Stanislavsky and Russian Theatre” December 27, 2010
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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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