Mikhail Segal

Mikhail Yurievich Segal Russian Михаил Юрьевич Сегал born 3 January 1974 Orel is a Russian filmmaker clipmaker writer scriptwriter editor and composer He is best known for the cult filmalmanac Short Stories by adapting your own prose He also gained a reputation as an antipop clipmaker Segal is an author of novels for Russian Pioneer magazine Studied at the directors faculty of the Film Institute VGIK made music clips for the groups Bi2 Spleen Nogu Svelo Twisted Leg Nochnye Snaipery Night Snipers Kasta Mashina Vremeni Time Machine etc Published two collections of prose In 2006 at XXVIII Moscow International Film Festival Mikhail presented his first fulllength film FranzPolina and got recognition at many Russian and international festivals in Germany France Poland Canada China and other countries In 2010 AST publishing house published Mikhails first book of prose Youth containing a story of the same name and a collection of short novels In 2011 Segal shot a short film Fasteners Solutions which was based on one of his novels and the film won the shortfilm nomination at Kinotavr Film Festival The same summer 3 other novels were shot and a fulllength movie Short Stories that got a widespread fame later on was presented at the next 2012 Kinotavr In 2014 Mikhail Segal presented his third fulllength movie A Film About Alexeev In 2018 the movie Elephants Can Play Football and the book Handwriting were released In 2020 his film Deeper was a participant of Sochi Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr