Nikolai Izvolov
Born: 1962-02-14 in Kostroma, RSFSR, USSR, [now Russia]
Known For: Production
Biography
Nikolai Izvolov (born in 1962 – Kostroma, USSR) is a Russian film historian and cinema theorist, researcher of film archives and specialist in reconstruction of the “lost” films. He's known by his reconstructions of Dziga Vertov's Anniversary of the Revolution (2018), The History of the Civil War (2021) and Man with a Movie Camera (2024). Author of the books Phenomenon of Film: History and Theory (2001) and Unknown Pages of Russian Avant-garde Cinema (2021). Since the beginning of the 1990s, he has been teaching the course Practice of Work in Film Archives for students of the Film Studies department in VGIK (All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography). In 1992, he collaborated with Chris Marker on the Alexander Medvedkin’s biopic The Last Bolshevik. Together with Natasha Drubek-Mayer he developed a creative method of film reconstruction ‘Hyperkino’ and applied it to the archives of Dziga Vertov, Alexander Medvedkin and Lev Kuleshov: Lenin Kino-Pravda (1996); Stop Thief! (1998); The Story of Tit… or the Tale of the Large Spoon (2000); Engineer Prite’s Project (2001); Alcoholism and Its Consequences (2001); Dokhunda (2006).
Filmography
2024
- The Return of Vertov as Self - Russian film historian
2023
- A History of Russian Cinema. The Birth of the Myth. as Self - Russian film historian
2014
- Searching for the Lost Pochta as Self - Russian film historian
2012
- We Come From Cartoons. 100 Years of Russian Animation as Self - Russian film historian
2009
- The Bug Trainer as Self - Russian film historian
2005
- Сукровица ... (Writer)
2002
- Dreams about Alfeoni ... (Thanks)
1994
- The Last Bolshevik as Self - Russian film historian
1991
1921
- The History of the Civil War ... (Archival Footage Coordinator)
1918
- Anniversary of the Revolution ... (Archival Footage Coordinator)