Nikolai Izvolov

Nikolai Izvolov born in 1962 Kostroma USSR is a Russian film historian and cinema theorist researcher of film archives and specialist in reconstruction of the lost films Hes known by his reconstructions of Dziga Vertovs Anniversary of the Revolution 2018 The History of the Civil War 2021 and Man with a Movie Camera 2024 Author of the books Phenomenon of Film History and Theory 2001 and Unknown Pages of Russian Avantgarde Cinema 2021 Since the beginning of the 1990s he has been teaching the course Practice of Work in Film Archives for students of the Film Studies department in VGIK AllRussian State Institute of Cinematography In 1992 he collaborated with Chris Marker on the Alexander Medvedkins biopic The Last Bolshevik Together with Natasha DrubekMayer he developed a creative method of film reconstruction Hyperkino and applied it to the archives of Dziga Vertov Alexander Medvedkin and Lev Kuleshov Lenin KinoPravda 1996 Stop Thief 1998 The Story of Tit or the Tale of the Large Spoon 2000 Engineer Prites Project 2001 Alcoholism and Its Consequences 2001 Dokhunda 2006