Daniil Zinchenko

Biography

Born in 1984 in Tyumen. He debuted in cinematography as an actor in Yevgeny Yufit's films «The Wooden Room» (1995) and «Silver Heads» (1999). Later he graduated from the Rodchenko Art School, Moscow. Zinchenko is a director of several feature films, including: «50» (together with Tikhon Pendyurin; 2018); «Russia as A Dream» (together with Andrey Silvestrov; 2016); and «Elixir» (2015). Participant of 16th Venice Architectural Biennale (Russian Pavilion; 2018); goEast Festival, Wiesbaden (2017); 66th Berlin International Film Festival (2016); and Moscow International Film Festival (2012, 2014). In 2019 he received Spirit of Fire Film Festival Award in the category Short Film for the film «Manifest» (together with Tikhon Pendyurin; 2019).

Directed

1. 50 (2018) — Director
2. Why Dreams (2021) — Director
3. Elixir (2016) — Director
4. Tinnitus (2018) — Director
5. Diary of a Philosopher Dog (2011) — Director
6. Russia as a dream (2017) — Director
7. Manifesto (2019) — Director
8. Mausoleum (2009) — Director
9. Flag (2010) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Silver Heads (1999)
2. Mad Mimes (2012) — Tribesman
3. America (2013) — Old American Oldman (Voice)
4. We Are Your Grandfather — Grandfather candidate #2
5. Long Encounters Quick Farewells — Self
6. The Way of Samodelkin (2009) — Mr. Wooden
7. Manifesto (2019)