Nikolai Izvolov

Nikolai Izvolov

February 14, 1962 (62 years old) in Kostroma, RSFSR, USSR, [now Russia]

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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Anna KaramazoffAnna Karamazoff
The Last BolshevikThe Last Bolshevik
We Come From Cartoons. 100 Years of Russian AnimationWe Come From Cartoons. 100 Years of Russian Animation
The Return of VertovThe Return of Vertov
A History of Russian Cinema. The Birth of the Myth.A History of Russian Cinema. The Birth of the Myth.

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