Svetlana Baskova

Svetlana Baskova est née en 1965 à Moscou. Elle a fait ses études à l'Académie d'Architecture de Moscou. Elle travaille comme artiste indépendante depuis 1990. Elle s'est affirmée comme cinéaste d'avant garde, ses films ont déjà remporté plusieurs prix. L'Éléphant vert et La Tête ont été présentés au festival de Rotterdam 2005 dans le cadre du thème Passé récent et futur proche : le cinéma russe parallèle.

Svetlana Baskova was born 25 May 1965 in Moscow. She graduated from MArchI in 1989.

Since 1996 she has been making video and movies. Her first movie, "Cocky - Running Doctor" was filmed in 1998. Actors in the film was famous postmodern artists: Sergey Pahomov (ru), Aleksandr Maslaev, Imperator Wawa, Alena Martynova, Aleksey Tkachenko, Sergey Salnikov Jr. Producers of the film were Sergey Salnikov and Oleg Mavromati. The film was shown on the Styk Festival.

In 1999 she created "The Green Elephant" — «the most dirty cinema of the millenium». One of the actor was Vladimir Epifantsev, the theater activist and presenter of TV show "Dryoma".

Her next films were "Five bootles of vodka", "The Head", "Mozart", "Only decision is resistance" and "For Marx"