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Alexander Markov has earned degrees from St.Petersburg University of Culture and Arts and the Cinema History Department of the Russian Institute of Art History.

Biography

Alexander Markov also studied at the Konrad Wolf University of Film & Television Art, Potsdam Babelsberg. In 2003, he translated three books on the work of Wim Wenders from German to Russian titled The Logic of Images. Since 2005, he has been teaching directing and film history in St.Petersburg’s University of Cinema and Television.

Markov’s films include Museum of Dreams (2000), Cities Within Cities (2003), Two Highways with Nick Teplov (2008) and Delusion (2010). In 2010, he was a member of the jury for the 13th PURE DREAMS International Film Festival in Saint-Petersburg.

This person was part of Sharjah Biennial 10

African Independence and Palestine

projects

Two thirty-five-minute videos assemble sequences borrowed from news reports from the archives of Soviet Television in the last century.

Sharjah Biennial 10: Plot for a Biennial

publications

Accompanying and complementing the main premise of Sharjah Biennial 10, Plot for a Biennial explores the concept of a ‘conversation’ through printed matter.