Ivan Maximov
Directing
Biography
Ivan Leonidovich Maximov (Russian: Иван Леонидович Максимов; born 19 November 1958; Moscow) is a Russian artist, animator and film director. Ivan Maximov was born on 19 November 1958 in Moscow. He studied photography at the Biophysical Institute in Moscow till 1976. From 1976 - 1982 Maximov studied at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in Moscow. He worked as an illustrator for various magazines and from 1982 to 1986 he was an engineer at the Russian Space Research Institute. Between 1986 and 1989 Maximov took advanced studies in Film Directing and Script writing. In the early 1990s, Maximov became involved with Russia's first gaming magazine, Video-Ace Dendy (Russian: Видео-Асс Dendy), and the television series, Dendy: The New Reality (Russian: Денди новая реальность, tr. Dendy Novaya Realnost, IPA: [ˈdʲenʲdʲɪ ˈnovəjə rʲɪˈalʲnəsʲtʲ]). Here he was in charge of designing Dendy the Elephant, Dendy's trademark mascot. Starting in 1995 Maximov worked as "virtual studio IVAN MAXIMOV" where he set up his studio at home to work on film, video and computer animation. He worked as a caricaturist for VREMYA mn and in 2000 and 2001 he worked as a caricaturist for VREMYA NOVOSTEY. In 2003, Maximov created the computer game Full Pipe at PIPE-STUDIO. The same year, he also began teaching film directing and script writing at school-studio SHAR and VGIK. From 2002 - teacher of film directing in school-studio "SHAR". From 2011 - teacher of animation filmdirecting in " PiterMultArt " in Saint-Petersburg. From 2011 to 2019 - artistic supervisor of animated series "Lucky!". From 2019 - teacher of film directing in the Modern Art Institute.
Known For
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Везуха!
A lyrical and funny story about the hard life of a village on the coast suffering from the high winds.
Wind Along the Coast
An old man named Zivojin Markovic, living in a remote village prays for his grandson Cane to go to the city, sell his cow and bring back a wife. In the city he is supposed to meet up with his grandfather's stepbrother, but this man is dead. Instead, he meets this man's two grandsons, two good-natured brothers who are nevertheless small-time criminals and experts in demolition. Cane soon clicks with these men, and also falls in love with a schoolgirl (Jasna), who he wants to marry as part of his testament with his grandfather. He gets involved in this girl's family affairs, rescuing both her and her mother from prostitution and gangsters headed by a man called Bajo, and the new group of people return to the small village in time to celebrate Zivojin's wedding to his neighbor, despite the gangsters' best efforts to stop the celebration, which results in a double wedding.
Promise Me This
A Monster suffers from boredom and loneliness, by chance he gets out of his cave and after walking through the maze arrives somewhere. There are only silly white bunnies. He is frustrated and comes back down. Finds another way, and sees some mad chickens with trunks.
Lonely Monster Goes Out
“Bolero” by Ravell is expressed in the mouvements of surrealistic paintings and in the rhythm of the film. This short animation won Golden Berlin Bear for Best Short Film.
Bolero
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Waiting for the Balloon
Seven days of destruction of the Biblical world.
Welcome to the 21st Century
A lonely man lives with his pet on a small island and longed to get to 'other people.'
Long Bridge of Desired Direction
Hooligan manipulations with paintings by the artist Alexander Wojciechowski.
Artist and Hooligans
The author of the work in a grotesque form tries to convey to the viewer that school education can not only make people better, but also, with an inappropriate approach to training, turn them into notorious monsters. We follow one lesson in school of fantastic, but such recognizable monsters.
Provincial School
Everyone pindyuryat somewhere at different speeds, someone on their own, someone - for authority.
Who We Go Why
The story is about a lonely fisherman and a girl who hatched from an egg and decided that the fisherman was her dad.
Baby of the Fisher
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Lyuba
Short animations from renouned authors dedicated to man-woman relationships.
Decanimerone-1
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Alternative Walk
A parable about the fragility of relationships. Love is sought, found, tested, lost...
The Strings
A film about an act of nature in the mountains, caused by a strong downpour.
Rain Down from Above
What is the philosophical meaning of the film? The moon falls into a meat grinder, whimsical, but typically Maximovian creatures, entering or not entering into some kind of relationship, are formed from moon stuffing, and eventually, after many transformations, the dog turns out to be patiently waiting for this on the "other edge" of the screen, gets a bone.
From Left to Right
A surreal film with a Freudian theme.
Libido of Benjamino
Film by Ivan Maksimov, music by J.S.Bach, starring Divertissement Chamber Orchestra.