Draft:Mikhail Basov

Mikhail Mikhailovich Basov (September 16, 1977, Taganrog) is a Russian media artist, documentary filmmaker.

Biography
Mikhail Basov was born on September 16, 1977, in Taganrog, in the family of a doctor and artist Mikhail Semyonovich Basov.

In 1999 he graduated from the Faculty of Russian Language and Literature of the Taganrog State Pedagogical Institute. He taught literature at the Gymnasium A. P. Chekhov, Taganrog Lyceum TMOL (2000–2007).

In 2009, his video installation Perforated Memory was shown at the II Moscow International Festival of Contemporary Contemporary Music Another Space accompanied by an improvisational soundtrack by pianist and composer Roman Stolyar and Polish flutist Edita Fil.

In May 2010, together with Natalia Basova, he created The 400 Blows cinema club in Taganrog.

In 2013 he was nominated in 2 positions at the Brazilian Festival of Video Art and Experimental Cinema Art Deco in São Paulo (Prize for the best video art and Audience Award).

In 2015, Mikhail and Natalia Basov's video installation Film for Imaginary Music was nominated for the Golden Cube award at the 32. Kasseler Dokfest Kassel Film and Video Festival (Germany).

In 2017, Basov took part in the Ryuichi Sakamoto Async International short film competition, in which his work «Poetry of Banality» received a special prize from Apichatpong Weerasethakul. Weerasethakul in his review of Basov's film, writes: «I was struck by Michael Basov's Poetry of Banality. I appreciate the evocation of early cinema's spirit in which simple gestures are marveled. One can imagine that the filmmaker was taking pleasure in hanging out, looking for images but found none but the flowers and a mobile phone. The seemingly purposeless mission turns into a poetry of love and of light addiction. This expression jumps between the composed and the candid, primitive and contemporary. Ryuichi's tune conspires to make this film a light of loneliness».

In 2020, he was a member of the jury of the experimental film section of the Message to Man international festival (St. Petersburg).

Basov's works were shown on TV channels Souvenirs from Earth (Germany, France, Austria), Art Television / Art Channel (France), VisualcontainerTV, IkonoTV (Germany).

Basov lives and works in Taganrog.

Participation in exhibitions and festivals

 * 2021 – The 6th Moscow International Experimental Film Festival.
 * 2021 – Curta Kinoforum – 32° Festival Internacional de Curtas-Metragens de São Paulo.
 * 2021 – Rencontres internationales Paris/Berlin (in the program Carte blanche to Apichatpong Weerasethakul). Paris, France.
 * 2020 – International online experimental film festival Seek the Sun. France.
 * 2020 – Exhibition Collection of Recollection. Yotsuya Unconfirmed Studio, Tokyo, Japan.
 * 2019 – 17th Signs of the Night International Festival (Thai Film Archive). Bangkok, Thailand.
 * 2019 – The Magikal Charm Experimental Video & Film Festival VII. Maya Deren Theatre, Anthology Film Archives, New York, USA.
 * 2018 – Exhibition of video art and experimental cinema Panorama Internacional VOL #1 (curated by Muriel Paraboni), Porto Alegre Pinacoteca, Brazil.
 * 2018 – Burnt Experimental Video Art and Film Festival. Montreal, Canada.
 * 2018 – Festival «Message to Man», St. Petersburg, Russia.
 * 2018 – Japan Media Arts Festival Kyoto Exhibition Ghost, ROHM Theater Kyoto, Japan.
 * 2017 – Ryuichi Sakamoto Async International short film competition, Japan.
 * 2017 – Kinodot. Experimental Film Festival (Competition program), St. Petersburg.
 * 2017 – VIDEOFORMES. International Digital Arts Festival. Clermont-Ferrand, France.
 * 2017 – Stuttgarter Filmwinter – Festival for Expanded Media; nomination for an award in the section Media in Space.
 * 2016 – Festival Celebración V / de Pirámide Selva, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
 * 2016 – DOKer Shorts: International Documentary Film Festival "DOKer", Moscow.
 * 2016 – Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, Jihlava, Czech Republic.
 * 2016 – Video Art Festival Festival Miden, (Kalamata, Greece).
 * 2016 – Video Art Festival International Video Art House Madrid, Madrid.
 * 2016 – Show at Experimental Art Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi.
 * 2015 – Japan Media Arts Festival, Tokyo.
 * 2015 – Instants Video, Marseille.
 * 2015 – FAÇADE VIDEO FESTIVAL, Plovdiv
 * 2015 – Kasseler Dokfest, Kassel.
 * 2015 – Usurp Zone5 Film Festival, London.
 * 2015 – Wroclaw Biennale (WRO Media Art Biennale), Wroclaw[10].
 * 2014 – Shown in Videoscape. A screening inspired by Nicolas Party's exhibition Landscape; Kunsthall Stavanger, Norway.
 * 2014 – Oslo Screen Festival, Oslo, Norway.
 * 2013 – Cologne Videoart festival.
 * 2013 – Exhibition of contemporary art Route 64. Moscow Contemporary Art Center Winzavod, Moscow.
 * 2013 – Video art exhibition Audiovisioni digitali / Scicli #1 - Mostra internazionale di ricerche audiovisive (Sicily, Italy).
 * 2013 – Video art festival Festival Miden / parallel program Move(In), (Kalamata, Greece).
 * 2013 – Video Art Biennale VIDEOAKT (Barcelona, Spain).
 * 2013 – FILMIDEO 2013 Festival (Newark, USA).
 * 2013 – Art Deco Festival in São Paulo, Brazil.
 * 2013 – Portland Experimental Film Festival.
 * 2009 – Russian-French exhibition Action planning in the center of contemporary art Angle Art Contemporain in Saint-Paul Trois Chateau (France) and at the Winery in Moscow.
 * 2009 – V Moscow International Festival of Actual Animation and Media Arts Linoleum.
 * 2009 – Exhibition Parallel Worlds: Escaping Reality (in the parallel program of the 53rd Venice Biennale), curated by Dovrat ana Meron, 2009.
 * 2009 – Video Art Festival Tramuntana 09 (Spain).
 * 2009 – Festival of video installation and performance Light, Site, Text & Concept (Busan, South Korea) 2009.
 * 2009 – Busan International Video Art Festival, South Korea.
 * 2008 – About the mortal in art. In memory of Nikolai Konstantinov, M-gallery, Rostov-on-Don.

Links

 * Mikhail Basov's page on VIMEO
 * Mikhail Basov's page on Art Television
 * Mikhail Basov's interview with Stigmart 10 Videofocus magazine Mikhail (Russian version)
 * Interview to the magazine «ABOUT»