Julia Loktev
Julia Loktev (born December 12, 1969) is a Russian-American film director and video artist.
Early life[]
Julia Loktev was born in Leningrad, Soviet Union (now St. Petersburg, Russia), and immigrated to the United States as a child. She lived in Colorado, where she lived until college. She moved to Montreal to study English and film at McGill University.[1]
Career[]
Loktev came across 's book of short stories and read it because she had been born in St. Petersburg. She decided to adapt the short story Expensive Trips Nowhere into the film The Loneliest Planet transporting the setting from Kazakhstan to Georgia.[2]
Loktev was resident at Eyebeam in 2005.[3]
In 2015, Richard Brody called her one of the best woman movie directors.[4]
Personal[]
In 1989, when she was 19, her father was severely injured in an automobile accident. The event was the subject of her 1998 documentary Moment of Impact.[7]
Films[]
- The Loneliest Planet (2011)
- Day Night Day Night (2006)
- Moment of Impact (1998)
Art installation[]
- Rough House, Brooklyn Museum of Art's "Global Feminisms" show.[8]
References[]
- ^ "Moments of Impact: A Conversation with Julia Loktev". MUBI. Retrieved 2020-12-26.
- ^ Kelsey, Colleen. "HUMAN, NATURE: JULIA LOKTEV ON THE LONELIEST PLANET". Retrieved 1 August 2015.
- ^ "Julia Loktev | eyebeam.org". www.eyebeam.org. Retrieved 2016-01-27.
- ^ Brody, Richard (11 December 2015). "The Best Movies of 2015". The New Yorker. Retrieved 12 December 2015.
- ^ "Fellows: Julia Loktev". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Archived from the original on August 8, 2014. Retrieved August 6, 2014.
- ^ "PUBLIC LIVES; From a Daughter, Scenes of a Life in Limbo". The New York Times. January 30, 1998.
- ^ Smith, D. "Julia Loktev, The Loneliest Planet". Retrieved 1 August 2015.
- ^ "What Makes Julia Loktev, the Director of a New Movie About a Female Suicide Bomber, Tick". New York Magazine. Retrieved May 13, 2007.
External links[]
- Julia Loktev at IMDb
- 1969 births
- Living people
- Soviet emigrants to the United States
- Tisch School of the Arts alumni
- American documentary filmmakers
- American film directors
- American people of Russian descent
- American women film directors
- Women documentary filmmakers
- American film director, 1960s birth stubs