Boris Kazakov

Russian artist and director, born on November 13, 1964 in Leningrad. After graduating from school, he graduated from the Plant-VTUZ. In 1988-1990 he began painting and exhibiting with the group "Old Town". Since 1990, he has worked with the artist Inal Savchenkov as part of the "Engineers of Arts" school. In 1996, Boris Kazakov made his first author's film "Nestlings of the Sea" using the traditional technique for russian parallel cinema of drawing over the image on film, which participated in festivals in Tampere, Stuttgart and was awarded a jury diploma in Oberhausen-98. In 1999, with his second film "Stakes", the director was invited to the competition program on Berlin Film Festival, to festivals in Leipzig, Jerusalem and was awarded the Grand Prix of the Kinoshock Festival. In 2000, the films "Nestlings of the Sea" and "Stakes" were shown in the program of the Rotterdam Film Festival, after which they were acquired by the Cinema Museum in Amsterdam. Boris Kazakov experiments a lot...