A versatile filmmaker, Victor Kossakovsky was born in Leningrad in 1961. Trained at the legendary Saint Petersburg Documentary Film Studio as cameraman, assistant director, and editor, he has been developing a body of work as a portraitist since 1989, culminating in Belovy (1993) and Sviato (2005). He tried his hand at the absurd human comedy in Silence! (2003) before his cinema took on a new depth and a global turn with ¡Vivan las antípodas! (2011), confirmed since by Aquarela (2018), and more recently by Architecton.
