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After a decade working in the film industry in the UK, Michael Craig travelled to Moscow in 1995 to make films and write where he has lived and worked ever since. He made his first documentary film "Alexander Rodchenko and the Russian Avant-garde" in 1999. From this experience he founded Copernicus Films and embarked on series of films about the Russian Avant-garde of the 1920s and 30s. Three further films followed; "Architecture and the Russian Avant-garde", "Mayakovsky" and "Meyerhold, Theatre and the Russian Avant-garde" . Two more films in the series have been completed "David Burliuk and the Japanese Avant-garde, with locations in Moscow Tokyo and Kyoto and a 6th film Kandinsky" shot in Germany and Russia.

Mayakovsky (NTSC version)Mayakovsky (NTSC version) (DVD)

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As a poet, Mayakovsky changed the context of Russian and Soviet literature both before and after the revolution. His suicide to this day is still a subject of debate. For more information about the series - The Russian Avant-garde see www.copernicusfilms.narod.ru

Architecture and the Russian Avant-garde (NTSC version)Architecture and the Russian Avant-garde (NTSC version) (DVD)

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Using computer graphics, archive footage and locations in Moscow, this film illustrates Malevich and Tatlin's contribution to world architecture and how some of their ideas may have looked in Moscow had they been built after the revolution.

Alexander Rodchenko and the Russian Avant-garde (NTSC Version)Alexander Rodchenko and the Russian Avant-garde (NTSC Version) (DVD)

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Alexander Rodchenko, the the Russian avant-garde artist, abandoned painting in the early 1920s in favour of photography which he believed would better express the new visual and social realities emerging at that time. His experiments in photography and photo-collage influenced artists and photographers throughout the 20th century.

David Burliuk and the Japanese Avant-garde (NTSC version)David Burliuk and the Japanese Avant-garde (NTSC version) (DVD)

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In 1922 David Burliuk, travelled to Japan from Russia, where he spent two years before finally emigrating to America. Born in the Ukraine,David Burliuk was known as the Father of Russian futurism but after the revolution he and his family found it necessary to leave Russia. Whilst in Japan he cooperated with the emerging Japanese futurist movement on whom he had an enormous influence.

Meyerhold, Theatre and the Russian Avant-gardeMeyerhold, Theatre and the Russian Avant-garde (DVD)

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The Russian theatre director, Meyerhold devised an acting technique called biomechanics. Using actors and archive footage from the period this film attempts to recreate his ideas in the context of Russian Theatre of the 1920s.

Kandinsky and the Russian House (NTSC version)Kandinsky and the Russian House (NTSC version) (DVD)

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Kandinsky and the Russian House is the sixth in a series of documentary films about the Russian avant-garde and demonstrates his pioneering work in abstract art at the beginning of the century in Russia and in Germany. Using archive footage and locations in Munich and Moscow this film follows Kandinsky's development of abstract art.