Biography
Award-winning documentary filmmaker, member of the European Film Academy, Andrei Zagdansky was born on March 9, 1956 in Kyiv, Ukraine. He received an MFA with distinction from Kyiv State University of Theatrical Arts.His first feature documentary, the seminal Interpretation of Dreams (1990), juxtaposed the filmmaker’s dialog with Sigmund Freud and the history of the Soviet Union. The result was “interesting and provocative” (Vincent Canby, The New York Times) and an "astonishing marriage of Freudian thinking and history” (Boston Globe).His films have been screened and awarded at many international film festivals, including: New York, Amsterdam, London, Krakow, San Francisco, Madrid, Istanbul, Cairo.In 1992 Andrei and his family relocated to the United States. In 1994 he received a Rockefeller Fellowship. He taught several film courses at New School in New York. He directed/edited/produced a number of feature documentaries, among them.Andrei was awarded the Golden Dzyga for his contribution to the Ukrainian cinema (Life time achievement award). (Dzyga is the Ukrainian for a “spinning top”and is the first part of David Kaufman famously assumed name Dzyga Vertov)
2002 Vasya2006 Konstantin and Mause2007 Orange Winter2010 My Father Evgeny2015 Vagrich and the Black Square2017 Michael and Daniel2021 National Museum
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