Independent Film Maker

Michael Craig is a director and producer of independent films, living and working in Moscow. He founded Copernicus Films which has produced the arts documentary series “The Russian Avant-garde - Renaissance or Revolution”, a series of six films about the Russian Avant-garde.

After a decade in the film industry in the UK, mostly packaging feature films for international production companies and dealing with the financial and production aspects of feature films, Michael traveled to Moscow in 1995 to make films and write. He made his first documentary film, Alexander Rodchenko, in 1998: this experience led him to embark on a series of films about the Russian Avant-garde of the 1920s and 1930s. Five further films in the series have now been completed: Architecture and the Russian Avant-garde, Meyerhold, Theatre and the Russian Avant-garde, and Mayakovsky, Kandinsky and the Russian House, and David Burliuk and the Japanese Avant-garde. Recently Michael completed two films on Russian theatre: Stanislavsky and the Russian Theatre and Vakhtangov and the Russian Theatre.