Copernicus Films

Links	Mayakovsky	Meyerhold Theatre and the Russian Avant-garde	Rodchenko and the Russian Avant-garde	Architecture and the Russian Avant-garde
Background to the Series	Contact us	Kandinsky & the Russian House	Copernicus Films DVD Store	David Burliuk and the Japanese Avant-garde

This site is about the work of director and producer Michael Craig. Here you will find information about material by Copernicus Films and links to other related sites.

Click the links above for information about the films or the thumbnails on the side bar for links to sites where the DVDs can be purchased.

Kandinsky, a full-scale retrospective of the visionary artist, theorist, pioneer of abstract art, and seminal figure in the history of the Guggenheim Museum will be presented from September 18, 2009, to January 13, 2010. This exhibition is organized by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York, in cooperation with the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau, Munich, and the Centre Pompidou, Paris. The film "Kandinsky and the Russian House" was released in 2007 and has featured as part of the Kandinsky exhibitions in Germany and at the Pompidou centre in Paris. It gives me great pleasure that the film will be associated with the 50th anniversary of the Guggenheim especially as Kandinsky served as an inspiration for the foundation of this great museum. This retrospective will bring together more than 100 paintings drawn primarily from these three institutions, whose collections make up the three largest repositories of Kandinsky in the world, as well as from significant private and public collections. A DVD of "Kandinsky and the Russian House" will be on sale at the exhibition and can be purchased at the Guggenheim shop in New York. Alternatively, click the link below to purchase the DVD at Amazon.

Copernicus Films has completed a series of 6 films about the Russian avant-garde and released on DVD(See above links) on Amazon.com. "Kandinsky and the Russian House" is the latest in the cycle of films about the Russian Avant-garde at the beginning of the 19th century.

The films in this series are focus on subjects such as the Soviet and Russian poet Mayakovsky, the artist and photographer Alexander Rodchenko, Meyerhold and theatre, Russian Avant-garde architecture as well as other figures of the Russian Avant-garde.

All films are released on DVD and can be purchased through this site or on Amazon. All films have been shot on location in Moscow. Other locations include Germany and Japan. Mayakovsky was shown on Swedish TV in 2006, "Alexander Rodchenko and the Russian avant-garde" was shown on the ArtsWorld Channel in the UK in 2003 and premiered at the Milan International Film Festival.

Copernicus Films operates out of Russia making documetary films and was created by Michael Craig.

using archive footage and locations in Japan, this film is a chronicle of Burliuk's life and work during his 2 year visit to Japan after leaving Russia and before finally emigrating to America in 1922.