Dmitry Geller

Dmitry Alexandrovich Geller (Russian: Дмитрий Александрович Геллер; born 12 October 1970) is a Russian animator and film director.

Biography

Geller began his creative activity as an independent artist, participated in art exhibitions in St. Petersburg, Copenhagen, Washington, Sofia.^[1] In his native city Ekaterinburg he participated in exhibitions in the civic centres "DK Avtomobilist”, “Surikova 31”, “Lenina 11”. In the year 1985, together with a group of architects he participated in creation of happenings at the disco parties in the civic centre “DK Sverdlova”.

In 1990 he began working as an artist at the studio "A-Film"^[2] at the Sverdlovsk Film Studio. He studied at the High Courses for Scriptwriters and Film Directors in Moscow (workshop of Fyodor Khitruk, Yuriy Norshteyn, Eduard Nazarov,^[3] Andrei Khrzhanovsky), and graduated in the year 1997. In the same year, he made a one-minute film for the animation project «Optimus Mundus».

He directed an animated sequence in feature and documentaries films. He created graphic design for a series of documentaries about the small nations in Africa, Asia and the North of Russia, as well as opening night posters for movies.

Invited by Jilin Animation Institute in 2011-2013 he created together with students two animated films, one of which has got the Chinese national award for the best short film in 2012, the Grand Prix of the festival in Hiroshima. Dmitry Geller is a Professor of Jilin Animation Institute.

Films of Geller were participating in musical performances in France and the Netherlands,^[4] his film Filmworks XIX: The Rain Horse ("Boy") took part in the jubilee presentations in connection with the 60th anniversary of John Zorn in Paris and on his jubilee concert in Mexico City.

Retrospectives of Geller’s films took part at film festivals in Moscow, St. Petersburg,^[5] Yekaterinburg,^[6] ANIMATOR (festival), Nikozi,^[7] Kraków,^[8] Sofia^[9] and selected films were shown in Amsterdam on the ship «Ship of fools»,^[10] Cinematheque in New York, Victoria and Albert Museum in London, his films are shown in the museum’s collection of the festival in Hiroshima.

Filmography

• Man meets woman,^[11] 2014
• The little pond by the great wall, 2012
• I saw mice burying a cat,^[12] 2011
• The sparrow who kept his word,^[13] 2010
• Boy. The Rain Horse, 2008
• Declaration of love, 2006
• Handicraft, 2004
• The little night symphony,^[14] 2003
• Hello from Kislovodsk,^[15] 2001
• Mystery - it’s you, 1998

Awards

Man meets woman

• Grand Prix. Best animation film. Festival "Window to Europe" Vyborg,^[16] 2014
• The Best Film for Adults "Tindirindis" Vilnius. Lithuania,^[17] 2014
• Prize of the Guild of Film Critics and Cinema Journalists Russia. "Suzdal", 2014
• 2nd place in professional rating. Open Russian Festival of Animated Film, 2014
• Best art director (Anna Karpova). National Animation Award "Ikar", 2015
• Best composer (Artem Fadeev). National Animation Award "Ikar", 2015
• Best sound director (Artem Fadeev). National Animation Award "Ikar", 2015
• Best producer (Lyubov Gaidukova). National Animation Award "Ikar", 2015
• "Special mention jury" WFAF. Varna.Bulgaria,^[18] 2014
• Prize "the Best director". Tofuzi. Batumi.Georgian, 2014
• "Special mention jury". Festival "Insomnia", 2014

I saw mice burying a cat

• Grand Prix. Hiroshima International Animation Festival 2012
• Best Short Film in 2011. National Award of China Association of animators "Golden monkey" China, 2012
• Special Jury prize. Open Russian Festival of Animated Film, 2012
• Special Jury prize. Festival "Window to Europe" Vyborg,^[16] 2012

The sparrow who kept his word

• Best film for children. Open Russian Festival of Animated Film, 2011
• First Prize. Festival "Orlenok". Russia, 2011
• Best animation film for children. Festival "Golden Fish". Russia, 2011
• Best animation film. Festival "Radiant Angel". Russia, 2011
• Best animation film. Festival "Siyazhar". Russia, 2011
• 2nd place. Professional Jury award. Anima Mundi (event) 2011
• 3nd place. Children Jury award. Festival "Radiant Angel". Russia, 2011
• Diploma. For the good clever fairy tale for children and not only. Festival "Film - children". Russia, 2011

Boy. The Rain Horse

• Grand Prix. Best animation film. Festival "Kinofest" Romania, 2008
• Grand Prix. Best animation film. Festival "Window to Europe" Vyborg, 2008
• Prize of the Guild of Film Critics and Cinema Journalists Russia «White elephant» in the nomination "The best animated film of the year.", 2008
• Diplome of Guild of film critics. Festival "Window to Europe" Vyborg,^[16] 2008
• Prize "Bright Impression". Festival "Golden fish" Russia, 2008
• 2nd place. A professional rating. Open Russian Festival of Animated Film, 2008

Declaration of love

• Prize of Guild of film critics. Festival "Suzdal". Russia,^[19] 2006
• 2nd place. A professional rating. Open Russian Festival of Animated Film 2006
• 2nd place. Festival "Multivision". S.Petersburg. Russia,^[20] 2006
• Special prize. KROK International Animated Films Festival. Ukraina, 2007

The little night symphony

• Grand Prix. KROK International Animated Films Festival 2004
• prize Grand. Open Russian Festival of Animated Film 2004
• Prize of alliance of designers. "Window to Europe" Vyborg. Russia,^[16] 2004
• Prize "Best experimental film". "Animayevka". Belarus, 2004
• Prize "Best sound". Fantoche, 2005
• Prize. Festival "Gato de luna". Espana, 2007

Hello from Kislovodsk

• Grand Prix. Open Russian Festival of Animated Film 2001
• Grand Prix. KROK International Animated Films Festival 2001
• Grand Prix. Festival. "Cinanima". Portugal,^[21] 2001
• Prize for best debut. Annecy International Animated Film Festival 2001
• Prize for best debut. Seoul International Cartoon and Animation Festival 2001
• Special prize. Festival Shtutgard. Germany,^[22] 2002
• Prize «Saint Anna Second Class». Festival of student films. Russia,^[23] 2001
• Prize of magazine «Premier». "Window to Europe" Vyborg, 2001

Mystery - it’s you

• Prize of the festival of "Extra short film festival".^[24] Novosibirsk. Russia

External links

• Geller website
• Dmitry Geller at the Internet Movie Database (incomplete filmography)
• Dmitry Geller at animator.ru

References