Nikolai Izvolov

Nikolai Izvolov

1962-02-14

Biography

Nikolai Izvolov is a Russian film historian and film scholar born in 1962 in Kostroma, USSR. He is the author of the Phenomenon of Film, History and theory (2001), and head of the department of the history of Russian cinema at the Cinema Art Institute in Moscow. In 1992, he collaborated with Chris Marker on the biopic of Alexander Medvedkin’s The Last Bolshevik. He developed a creative method of film reconstruction, ‘Hyperkino’ (together with Natasha Drubek-Mayer), and applied it to the archives of Dziga Vertov, Alexander Medvedkin, and Lev Kuleshov.

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The Last Bolshevik

The Last Bolshevik

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Anna Karamazoff

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Searching for the Lost Pochta

Searching for the Lost Pochta

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We Come From Cartoons. 100 Years of Russian Animation

We Come From Cartoons. 100 Years of Russian Animation

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The Bug Trainer

The Bug Trainer

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The Return of Vertov

The Return of Vertov

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A History of Russian Cinema. The Birth of the Myth.

A History of Russian Cinema. The Birth of the Myth.

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