Michael Craig
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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
Biographical and Background
See also: Copernicus Films
After a decade working in the film industry in the UK, mainly on the financial and production aspects of feature films, Michael Craig 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. His latest film is a documentary about the Russian theatre director and founder of MXAT (The Moscow Art Theatre) Stanislavsky.
The film was permiered at The Stanislavski Centre in spring 2011
After a decade working in the film industry in the UK, mainly on the financial and production aspects of feature films, Michael Craig 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. His latest film is a documentary about the Russian theatre director and founder of MXAT (The Moscow Art Theatre) Stanislavsky.
The film was permiered at The Stanislavski Centre in spring 2011
Premiere of Stanislavsky and the Russian Theatre
The Stanislavski Centre - London
Premiere of Stanislavsky and the Russian Theatre which Michael Craig presented at The Stanislavski Centre, London in spring 2011
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Michael Craig in Japan
Filming on Ogasawara
In 2004 as part of our trip to film in Japan,we travelled to the Island group of Ogasawara to shoot part of the material for the film David Burliuk and the Japanese Avant-garde.Sometimes known as the Bonin Islands, Ogasawara is located in the Pacific Ocean about 1000 kilometres south of Tokyo Bay. it takes between 25-30 hours to get there and is only accessible by ship. Tokyo 2009
Gathering material for the web documentary Japan-Philosophical Landscapes
Rehearsals for the film "Meyerhold,Theatre &The Russian Avant-garde"
Michael Craig and William Pease rehearsing biomechanics for the film "Meyerhold, Theatre and the Russian Avant-garde"
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On the streets of Moscow - documentary film about the poet Mayakovsky
Filming wit camera operator Slava Sachkov for the film "Mayakovsky" - produced and Directed by Michael Craig (left) of Copernicus Films
On the Streets of Moscow - Documentary film about the Poet Mayakovsky
Still from film with operator Slava Sachkov on the documentary film "Mayakovsky" by Copernicus Films- produced and directed by Michael Craig
Still from the film "The Touch" - Filmed in Warsaw and Copenhagen
Michael Craig - brief role(2nd from left) in the film The Touch with Krystof Zanussi directing (Centre)
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During Cannes MIP TV
Milan International Film Festival - Alexander Rodchenko and the Russian Avant-garde
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Press and Media
A selection of press reviews broadcasts and interviews
- Interview on Voice of Russia
- Interview on Voice of Russia with Estelle Winters
- Press release
- New Arts Documentary Series "Revolution or Renaissance" - Copernicus Films
The producer and director Michael Craig of Copernicus Films discovers inspiration in the pioneers of the Russian Avant-garde of the 1920s and 30s. - NewsBlaze - press release Stanislavsky and the Russian Theatre
- NewsBlaze - press release Stanislavsky and the Russian Theatre. news about the release of this film in 2011
- Picturing the Revolution
- ART BLOG BY BOB - review of the Film by Michael Craig Alexander Rodchenko and the Russian Avant-garde
- From The Ground up
- ART BLOG BY BOB - review of the Film by Michael Craig Architecture and the Russian Avant-garde
- Island Hopping
- A review of the film David Burliuk and the Japanese Avant-garde by Art Blog by Bob
Alexander Rodchenko and the Russian Avant-garde
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Michael Craig - Links
- Copernicus Films
- Official site of Copernicus Films
- Japan - Philosophical Landscapes
- A web documentary film by Michael Craig and Copernicus Films about the role of landscape in the cultural philosophy and history of Japan and its reflection in the visual landscape from the early Shinto shrines, gardens and the urban landscape of today's Japan
- Stanislavsky and the Russian Theatre
- Michael Craig's latest film which was released in the spring of 2011
- Michael Craig on Postereous
- Michael Craig's Postereous site
- Link to Michael Craig on Facebook
- Michael Craig on Facebook
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Michael Craig on Voice of Russia with Estelle Winters of Timelines
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Estelle Winters
Feb 10, 2012 17:13 Moscow Time
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Estelle Winters together with film director Michael Craig of Copernicus Films looks back over the years with the help of Timelines material from the archives.
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Estelle Winters
Feb 10, 2012 17:13 Moscow Time
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Estelle Winters together with film director Michael Craig of Copernicus Films looks back over the years with the help of Timelines material from the archives.
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