Stepanov Dmitrii

Born in 1990 in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, Dimitrii Stepanov is a filmmaker, visual artist, writer, and musician. In Nizhny Novgorod, he studied history at N.I. Lobachevsky State University, photography at the Russian Museum of Photography, and attended the PROVMYZA courses, appearing in their film Snowdrop (2011 – in the collection of the Centre Pompidou). He directed the project Grandfather Goes to India (2012), which was shown at the 2morrow and Shorter! festivals, and is the author of the short films Close Circle (2013) and Warms Walls (2016).

Employed at NNCA Arsenal, he filmed portraits of local artists (City or Space, 2017; Gorky. The Point of No Return, 2018; Idling, 2019; PROVMYZA: A Comment at the Beginning of the Archive, 2020; Evgeny Strelcov: Quantum Observations, 2021) and took part in exhibitions. He is a guitarist and singer, writes the music for his films, and performs in concert, where he combines poetry and songs; together with Kirill Kobrin he created the project Sick Chekhovs and the album Future Has Come, Past Is Still Here, for which he composed electronic music. He publishes poetry and prose on polutona.ru and postnonfiction.org, and art criticism on arterritory.com and in Dialogue of Arts. In 2022, in opposition to Putin’s regime and the war in Ukraine, he took refuge in France and became a member of the Agency of Artists in Exile.