Nikonov Maxim Biography

Maxim Vyacheslavovich Nikonov Russian director of cinema and interactive projects, teacher, one of the founders and a virtual researcher in the cinema and founder of the Laboratory of Virtual Cinema. The art director of the VR Film Festival "Culture". Biography is a description of the main important events in my life, as well as creative projects that influenced the formation of an author's career.

Family and early years. At school age, he was fond of music - playing a guitar, chess, computer animation and graphic design. In the year, he won the Grand Prix at the All-Russian festival-contest of the cartoon of the “Looking into the Future” work for the animated short 3D film “About Fedor” and entered without exams at the St. Petersburg Humanitarian University of St. Petersburg State University for the Department of Multimedia Directorate for Kino and Television.

Workshop Valentina Dmitrievich Soshnikova. For excellent studies, I got the opportunity to study at the university for free. He combined his studies and work, shooting advertising videos, and specialized in video design. Also, while studying at the university, he organized 3D graphics and animations for secondary school students and taught at school within 3 years. The beginning of the career and the first projects.

He later had a significant impact on my approach to creativity and worldview. As a result, since the year I am starting to cooperate with the producer center of Sinemafonika, created by Sergey Davina and for years I work there as deputy general director for cultural projects. During my work, I take an active part in creating video products and in the work on the projects “World detachment of young cosmonauts”, “Orthodox Rus'”, “Great Dolmenov Country”, “Genius and Masterpieces”, Congress “Science, Information, Consciousness”, I participate in the expedition to the Krasnodar Territory for topographic studies of dolmens, I work on a number of film projects, I am familiar with Tonino Guerra, Boris Eifman, Oleg Yakhnin, Alexander Sokurov, Anton Lubchenko, Alexei German Jr., Grigory Pototsky and other artists.

In the year, a debut show in the St. Petersburg cinema is held on the birthplace of my first non -human film - “Veliput” as part of a festival dedicated to the Children's Day. The film talks about the first Russian ethnographic expedition to the Kingdom of Cambodia. The task of the expedition representing the Russian Ethnographic Museum included a program to collect the unique collection “Eurasian Continental Civilization”.

In the year, I graduate from the university with honors and go to graduate school for specialization-art history, I begin to teach video design, theory and practice of film monitoring. Aldoshina Irina Arkadyevna - professor of sound engineering, doctor of technical sciences, member of the Coordinating Council on April on the Russian Academy of Sciences, becomes the scientific director of the dissertation work “Interaction of sound and visual images in multimedia environment”.

In the year I am finishing work on the short documentary “My Friend Theo Angelopoulos. A documentary portrait for the acquaintance and friendship of Theo Angelopulos and St. Petersburg. The film is based on a unique interview with Theo Angelopulos during his visit to St. Petersburg. The famous director talks about the reasons for traveling to the cultural capital and his attitude to St.

Petersburg. The film is participated in the documentary films festival in Greece in Thessaloniki. In the year, Sergey Zhanievich Davina dies, in this regard, the activities of the Sinemafonika production center and work on a number of film projects are stopped. In the summer of the year, I go to Kabardino-Balkaria to climb Elbrus, traveling a hitchhiking and shooting the documentary “Road over the clouds”, I begin to be interested in avant-garde technical areas in cinema, I study new methods of shooting and reproducing video, I will take into account the Institute of Foreign Languages ​​in St.

Petersburg, I continue to fulfill various orders for video production, I shoot presentation and I shoot presentation Advertising videos. I am attracted by the possibilities of interactive technologies in the cinema and the technology for shooting spherical video panels. Research of video and virtual cinema. The first orders and projects. Throughout the year I actively spend tests on filming in video and 3D format, I cooperate in this area with the St.

Petersburg Cinema film studio. This year I became one of the first directors in the world who reproduced their own shot video in the virtual reality headset “Oculus Rift” and described this in the scientific article “The influence of sound on the realism of perception using a new method of playing video materials using the virtual reality of Oculus Rift” in the 5th issue of the journal “Scientific Opinion”.

This year I created the Cinemactive creative group Sinemactiv in the future, the names were replaced by changes in positioning and development - Lenvr, then Rosvr, and as a result, LLC Laboratory of Virtual Cinema Kinematographer, engaged in the shooting of interactive films and VR projects, became a master of 4th year on directing multimedia in the directory of multimedia The Humanitarian University of Trade Unions headed the department of the Department of Cinema and Television on International Activities.

In the year, he met Nikolai Gorely - the author and ideologist of the Geek Picnic festival. Nikolai suggested starting the joint implementation of the first interactive film in 3D format - “Chernobyl VR”. In March, the announcement of this project was announced at the exhibition of the achievements of modern Technologies TechTrendsexpo. In the spring of the year, I shot the first documentary in the format about St.

Petersburg-“St. Petersburg VR” by order of Prosense. The film consists of flights over the main attractions of the city and the story and about their history. During the creation of the film, the technology of filming from the drone is first tested. In the summer of the year, I successfully participate with the team in the Geek Picnic and VKontakte festivals, for the first time demonstrating videos with integrated interactive elements, thanks to which the viewer can not only observe what is happening, but also influence the content interactively.

At the VKontakte festival, I get acquainted with the founder of Total Interactive Vitaly Tikhonov and as a result of September 5, the first shooting of Tver from the multicopter is carried out in format using new stabilization equipment. The project does not collect the necessary amount and freezes for an indefinite time. I first shared with a large professionally oriented audience of students a concept about a new direction in the film industry.

At the end of November, together with Ilya Marchenko, a partner from Gexagon, I went to Hong Kong with the goal of the first working ten -day trip to organize a joint test flight on a multicopter with a filming and setting partnerships with a local company, which was the first to offer air shooting from Cop containers - “Spentaneous Combustion Productions ”, as well as with the aim of shooting a film about Hong Kong and Macau's video in the format in April of the year, work on the film“ Hong Kong VR ”ends and exclusive rights to display are sold by the American company Ascape.

The first copyright VR movies. Every year, hundreds of people come to Elbrus to climb to the top of this volcano. Also, at the VR festival of the Kinematographer, the culture of the year Elbrus was recognized as a professional jury the best VR films in the nomination of non -aggregate cinema. In the summer of the year, I shoot my first artistic game VR movie “Outside of the Body”.

This is a mystical thriller. Duration 13 minutes. This film was one of the first in Russia staged artistic experimental projects in the field of VR cinema at the stage of the appearance and development of VR directions in the Russian video reception. VR projects with large film companies. This two -minute teaser was one of the first in the practice of Russian film companies in such an unusual format.

For me, this project was the first commercial game art order. Also in the year I quit from the university and stop regular work in the educational field in order to devote more time to creativity and business. The next important and large -scale artistic cinema project was the Time Portal Berlin project - a film for the museum in Berlin. Its goal was to immerse the museum guests into a brief story of Berlin through a film in a virtual reality format, which forms a single collective image of the city and conveys the atmosphere of the historical path traveled.

Work on the project by order began in September. Two pilot scenes were made in the year.

The first is the burning of books on Bebelpets Square in Berlin and the second is the air attack of the city in the year. On the set, the most difficult creative tasks in the industry of the Russian VR video production at the current time were solved. Combined computer graphics, capture of movement, work with actors of the mass scene, 3D architectural modeling, historical reconstruction, work with costumes, simulation of natural effects, high resolution.

Currently, the project is frozen in connection with the Pandemia of Coronavirus, which began in the year and then Swar. In March, I was lucky to become a member of the "circular" expedition to Baikal on my own initiative. Within a month, I traveled to this place and shot photos, as well as a video in virtual reality format. As a result, the VR film about Baikal, which participated in the Expectantal Project of the Sirius Roscosmos for the astronauts experiencing a long-term stay in a closed space, was removed.

On board the testing room was a VR helmet and, among other things, there was a film about Lake Baikal.In the same year, by order of the IRI Internet Development Institute, in cooperation with the Muvistart and Basel studios, I worked as a VR supervisor and post-production director on the historical educational mini-series of 3 episodes in the virtual reality format VR video about Leo Tolstoy and Ivan Turgenev with the same name “Tolstoy and Turgenev”.

The series starred in St. Petersburg and Yasnaya Polyana. The producer and director was Andrei Salnikov, director of the film festival. Acquaintance with Andrei was the beginning of creative fruitful cooperation in the future. An important directorial work for me was the musical VR clip for the song “King and the Jester” “Dead Anarchist”, filmed by the KinoPoisk in the decorations of the original series with a serial acting.

On the same day, an exhibition “Punk-Culture, in the center of contemporary art in Moscow, opened. The king and the jester. " Guests as part of the exhibition could also see a music video. The first professional festival of virtual cinema in St. Petersburg “Culture” by the logical outcome of all my activities in practice, research and development of virtual cinema in Russia from up to year to 10 years was the project of the Culture virtual cinema festival, which was extended by the PFCA grant competition in the year.

I organized this project together with Andrei Salnikov and acted as an art director and program director. The festival of virtual cinema "Culture" - has become an important iconic event in the VR movie industry in Russia. As part of the February festival, open competitive shows of the best Russian VR films were held in St. Petersburg, as well as interesting master classes about the VR direction for spectators of all ages.

The culture of the VR film festival teaser in the competition program of the festival included feature game and documentaries of Russian directors in the video format films were selected with the participation of existing experts of the VR industry and leading specialists of the film industry. Present.