Julia Loktev

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Julia Loktev (born December 12, 1969) is a Russian–American film director, screenwriter, and

video artist
.

Early life

Julia Loktev was born in

St. Petersburg, Russia). She immigrated to the United States as a child and lived in Colorado until leaving for college. She moved to Montreal to study English and film at McGill University.[1]

Career

Loktev came across

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 life

Loktev is

Jewish.[5][6]

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

Art installation

  • Rough House,
    Brooklyn Museum of Art's "Global Feminisms" show.[8]

References

  1. ^ "Moments of Impact: A Conversation with Julia Loktev". MUBI. 23 July 2019. Retrieved 2020-12-26.
  2. ^ Kelsey, Colleen (26 October 2012). "HUMAN, NATURE: JULIA LOKTEV ON THE LONELIEST PLANET". Retrieved 1 August 2015.
  3. ^ "Julia Loktev | eyebeam.org". www.eyebeam.org. Retrieved 2016-01-27.
  4. ^ Brody, Richard (11 December 2015). "The Best Movies of 2015". The New Yorker. Retrieved 12 December 2015.
  5. ^ "Fellows: Julia Loktev". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Archived from the original on August 8, 2014. Retrieved August 6, 2014.
  6. ^ "PUBLIC LIVES; From a Daughter, Scenes of a Life in Limbo". The New York Times. January 30, 1998.
  7. ^ Smith, D (24 October 2012). "Julia Loktev, The Loneliest Planet". Retrieved 1 August 2015.
  8. ^ "What Makes Julia Loktev, the Director of a New Movie About a Female Suicide Bomber, Tick". New York Magazine. 4 May 2007. Retrieved May 13, 2007.

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