Mikhail Zheleznikov was born in Leningrad in 1972. Made films for ARTE and YLE, Corona Films, and St. Petersburg Documentary Film Studio. Participant and jury member of various international film festivals. His video works have been exhibited at modern art museum Kiasma (Helsinki, Finland), Museum of the Moving Image (New York, USA), The National Art Center (Tokyo, Japan), Kunst Museum Bonn (Germany), Museum of Modern Art Erarta (St. Petersburg, Russia). Since 2011 curates experimental short film competition In Silico, at Message To Man film festival. In 2012 co-organized minimalist short film festival Kinodot. Since 2015 is teaching at St. Petersburg State Institute of Culture, since 2016 - in St. Petersburg New Cinema School.