EVGENIY GRANILSHCHIKOV Evgeny Granilshchikov (born in 1985 in Moscow) is a multidisciplinary artist and independent film director based in Clermont-Ferrand, France. He graduated from the Rodchenko Art School in 2013 and works across media ranging from drawing, moving images to video installation and performance which constitute the current focus of his practice. Granilshchikov was the winner of the Kandinsky Prize in 2013 and a finalist for the Innovation Prize in 2016. His time-based project Unfinished Film was screened during the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen and East Festival of Central and Eastern European Film, where it won the Open Frame Award in 2016. In 2022 he received a scholarship from the French embassy and now lives in France, where he is working on several films focused on themes such as home loss and the phenomenon of collective and historical trauma. |