Workshop
Evfeny Yufit
Evgeny Yufit was born in 1961 in Saint Petersburg, Russia. In the early 1980s he began working as a painter and art photographer. In 1985 he set up the first independent film studio in Russia, MZHALALA FILM, which brought together artists, writers, directors and others sympathetic to radical aesthetic experimentation. At this studio Yufit made a number of films which have been shown at the world's major film festivals including Montreal, Locarno, Toronto, Rotterdam, and Moscow. His film Papa, Father Frost Is Dead was awarded the Grand Prix at the Rimini Film Festival in Italy. Yufit's paintings, films and photographs have been shown in major exhibitions of contemporary Russian art since 1985, at the State Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf; Kunstverein, Hannover; The Museum of Modern Art, Mexico City; MOMA, New York. Works by Yufit are to be found in museums, galleries and private collections both in Russia and abroad.
FILMOGRAPHY
- 1984 Werewolf Orderlies
- 1985 Woodcutter
- 1987 Spring
- 1988 Fortitude
- 1988 Suicide Monsters
- 1989 Knights of Heaven
- 1991 Papa, Father Frost is Dead
- 1994 Will
- 1995 The Wooden Room
- 1998 Silver Heads
- 2002 Killed by Lightning
- 2005 Bipedalism
