Producer, director, cinematographer, picture and sound editor. Director and co-owner of Chemodan Films. Taught Russian/Soviet cultural and film history at Duke University and the University of Toronto. Ph.D. in Russian Literature and History. Lausanne University, Switzerland (1982)
Filmography (direction and co-direction):
I am a sheep (2023), Freudental (2020), Screening from Within (2018), Manchurian Sleepwalkers (2018), In Search of Roubakine (2012), Meet Me in Harbin! (2011), The Interim Country (2010), The Photographer (2008), Komsomolsk mon amour (2007), The Province of Lost Film (2006).