About Copernicus Films

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 and from this experience embarked on series of films about the Russian Avant-garde of the 1920s and 30s. Three further films have been completed “Architecture and the Russian Avant-garde and , Meyerhold, Theatre and the Russian Avant-garde . Two further films are 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.