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Silence is gold. Who needs words in this sea of selfless love.

Mikhail Zheleznikov was born in Leningrad in 1972. Made TV episodes for ARTE and YLE, films for St. Petersburg Documentary Film Studio. Participant and jury member of various international film festivals. His video works have been exhibited at modern art museum Kiasma (Helsinki, Finland), Museum of the Moving Image (New York, USA), The National Art Center (Tokyo, Japan), Kunst Museum Bonn (Germany), Museum of Modern Art Erarta (St. Petersburg, Russia). Since 2011 curates experimental short film competition In Silico at Message To Man film festival. In 2012 co-organized experimental film festival Kinodot. In 2015-2019 was teaching at St. Petersburg State Institute of Culture, in 2016-2021 in St. Petersburg New Cinema School. In 2019 was one of the curators of the experimental project Per Forma 2 Stage at the Big Drama Theater. Since 2019 he has taught documentary filmmaking at St. Petersburg State University of Film and Television.