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About the director:
Dimitri Lurie (born in Leningrad, USSR in 1970), is an independent film-maker, producer, videoartist and photographer. Lurie is graduated from the St. Petersburg State Polytechnic University, the Faculty of Engineering Cybernetics, and subsequently studied at the Religious-Philosophical Institute. From 1991 to 2001, he actively participated in the movement of St. Petersburg nonconformist artists, who declared (squatted) St. Petersburg’s resettlement areas as territories of art. He curated and participated in a number of international art and film projects. He began filming in 1994 with a 16mm camera “Krasnogorsk-3”. He is the author of twenty short fiction, experimental and documentary films, which have participated in many international festivals and won awards. Lurie’s works are in the collections of European film archives and museums of contemporary art. In 1999, he was invited to teach at a private film school in Oslo. In 2006, Dmitry became a scholarship holder of the Norwegian government. He lives and works in Oslo.