Modern Art Venue Opened in Moscow

A new modern art venue has been opened in Moscow in September 2008. It is called the Garage and is literally an old Bus garage which has been renovated and bought by the Russian billionaire, Abram Abramovich as prohect managed by his girlfriend Dasha Zhukova. However it is not simply an old garage for buses …

New David Burliuk painting found in Tokyo antiques market

This entry is a further sequel to my work with Akira Suzuki on the film "David Burliuk and the Japanese Avant-garde". At the end of last year and the beginning of this year we spent three months in Japan researching material for a film. While we were there we spent a great deal of time …

Architecture and the Russian Avant-garde

Architecture and the Russian Avant-garde The second film in the series "The Russian Avant-garde" grew out of the first in that Rodchenko phot0graphed many of the new buildings which had been built in Moscow and which were themselves a product of the avant-garde. Through researching Rodchenko I quickly became interested in the Russian avant-garde as …

Mayakovsky

Mayakovsky Mayakovsky was probably the most problematical film to make from a number of points of view. Firstly Mayakovsky's poetry is very specific and avant-garde although there are some very good translations in English. However I wanted to retain the original Russian to preserve the original rhythm of his poetry and this caused considerable problems. …

Kandinsky and the Russian House

Kandinsky and the Russian House After a long and torturous route this film has finally been completed and released on Amazon as DVD. It is the sixth film in a series about the Russian avant-garde by Copernicus Films and the director Michael Craig. The film took longer than expected for many reasons. Firstly it was …

Alexander Rodchenko and the Russian Avant-garde

Alexander Rodchenko and the Russian Avant-garde About the photography of Alexander Rodchenko and the making of this film in Moscow. By Michael Craig When I began to make films in Russia in the mid 1990s, I was prepared for all kinds of problems but none of the problems I subsequently encountered. I had already worked …

Meyerhold,Theatre and the Russian Avant-garde

Meyerhold, Theatre and the Russian Avant-garde The film Meyerhold, Theatre and the Russian Avant-garde, grew out of the Mayakovsky film. Meyerhold's task was to combine the three dimensionality of the actors body with the flat two dimensionality of the set design. In order to solve this problem he turned to the developments in the graphic …

David Burliuk and the Japanese Avant-garde ( About the film)

David Burliuk and the Japanese Avant-garde "David Burliuk and the Japanese Avant-garde" was released on DVD in the autumn of 2007. The film charts the work of the Russian futurist David Burliuk in Japan. After he left Russia during the Russian civil war, David Burliuk spent two years in Japan and put on exhibitions in …

David Burliuk and the Japanese Avant-garde

"David Burliuk and the Japanese Avant-garde" was released on DVD in the autumn of 2007. The film charts the work of the Russian futurist David Burliuk in Japan. After he left Russia during the Russian civil war, David Burliuk spent two years in Japan and put on exhibitions in Tokyo, Kyoto and Yokohama. His influence …

Akira Suzuki: Books, Translations and other work

Below is a selection of Akira Suzuki's work. He lives in Tokyo and is a one of the leading experts in Burliuk's work and life with special reference to Japan. His research into this subject was featured in the film, about David Burliuk's 2 year stay in Japan between 1920-22. Below is a clip form …