Mikhail Zheleznikov

A short study of an old photo found in Oberhausen last year.

A short reflection on lonely dog walking.

For as long as I can remember, I have always been drawn to look into every St. Petersburg courtyard. Quiet and strange life of the "inner space" of St. Petersburg, sounding behind the scenes stories from the life of city dwellers. This film is a short study on the theme "Portrait of my city".

With this poetic collection of photos, news footage, and home movies, filmmaker Mikhail Zheleznikov takes stock of his childhood in the USSR and post-Soviet St. Petersburg.

The film is an allegory in which the attempt is made to show the inner process of movement of the composer's soul at the time of the birth of music.

‘In front of me is a glass of wine with a thin leg. I look at it and think that I will reach out my hand and it will tremble, and the glass will tip over, fill the table with wine, and everyone will see it’.

A brave physicist saves Soviet people and the man she loves from a vicious attack.

Away with words.

A film about Soviet childhood. The focus is on an ordinary Soviet boy, whose story is full of humor and colorful phrases. It is conducted from his birth to the festive graduation night. The whole life of the guy flashes on the screen, the Octobrists, red ties, faith in the victory of communism, admiration for Lenin, the Olympics-80, the iron curtain and the rejection of Western values, the first dances and falling in love, everything points to an irrevocably gone time. Through the prism of everyday life and holidays of an ordinary guy, a whole era of the cult of socialism and faith in the Soviet Union emerges. The film "Collection No. 1" turns back time, making you remember the past with nostalgia.

This is a film about people sitting in booths in the middle of a big city, shoemakers, policemen, stationmasters, security guards and guest workers.

A young artist Gleb gets a job in a mental hospital, where he teaches painting to mentally ill people with neuroses, depression and other disorders. He is glad that he finally has the opportunity to do his favorite thing, while benefiting people. However, since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, Gleb has been losing faith in the future . Constantly listening to the news, losing close friends who have left the country, watching the horrific actions of the Russian authorities and the general mood around him, he increasingly doubts the adequacy of this world. As a result, Gleb comes to the conclusion that the mental hospital is now, oddly enough, the only normal place and decides to stay there.

A brief study of the unusual history of one old film frame.

The history of Khrushchev's "corn campaign" through the eyes of a viewer of Soviet newsreels of the 50s and 90s. The film tells about its main stages, as a result of which the country exported even bread for a long time. The narrative, based on newsreels, is interspersed with inserts from a propaganda cartoon of those years. When the pensioner, who devoted 25 years to breeding a new frost-resistant variety of corn, still achieved the result, the USSR no longer existed.

History revolves around the Alexander Column on Palace Square, as if it were a cursed axis of time.

Experimental documentary attempting to create unity by separation with accidental images and music by Joana Sa.

I often find photos of strangers… This film is a collage of frames shot on an old camera in different cities and countries over the last three years

Once I met a man, who lived in the airport, because he had no where to fly.

This must be a strange occupation for an adult.

A minimalist study of an old photograph, accidently found in an antique store. The more you look at it, the more things you see, yet you will never be able to grasp its true meaning. An exercise in looking closely.