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Julia Loktev (born December 12, 1969) is a Russian–American film director, screenwriter, and video artist.
Julia Loktev was born in Leningrad, Soviet Union (now St. Petersburg, Russia). She immigrated to the United States as a child and lived in Colorado until leaving for college. She moved to Montreal to study English and film at McGill University.[1]
Loktev came across Tom Bishell's book of short stories God Lives in St. Petersburg and read it because she had been born in St. Petersburg. She decided to adapt the short story Expensive Trips Nowhere into the film The Loneliest Planet transporting the setting from Kazakhstan to Georgia.[2]
Loktev was resident at Eyebeam in 2005.[3]
In 2015, Richard Brody called her one of the best woman movie directors.[4]
In 1989, when she was 19, her father was severely injured in an automobile accident. The event was the subject of her 1998 documentary Moment of Impact.[7]
- Moment of Impact (1998)
- Day Night Day Night (2006)
- The Loneliest Planet (2011)
- My Undesirable Friends Part I – Last Air in Moscow (2024)
- Rough House, Brooklyn Museum of Art's "Global Feminisms" show.[8]
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