Alexander Markov

Alexander Markov is a director of documentary films and a film historian. Born in 1973 in Leningrad, he graduated from the St. Petersburg University of Culture and Arts in 2000 as a film and video studio director. In 2003, he translated Wim Wenders book The Logic of Images from German for the publishing house B&K in St. Petersburg. From 2000–2004, he studied at the Russian Institute of Art History and graduated as a historian of cinema. From 2005–2006, he studied at the Konrad Wolf Academy for Film and Television in Potsdam, Germany and participated in the OpenWorld program. From 2016–2017, he worked on an installation project called Red Africa in Moscow, London, Bayreuth, Lisbon, and Budapest. In 2018, he was a Visiting Fulbright Scholar and taught master classes and lectures at New York University.

He shoots documentaries at studios both in St. Petersburg and Abroad, teaches directing documentary film at St. Petersburg State University of Film and Television, and works as an independent curator with the Goethe-Institut and the New York African Film Festival. He was a participant in Berlinale Talents 2015.