Aleksandr Gorchilin

Biography

Stage and film actor, video artist, director. In 2008 enrolled at the Moscow Art Theatre School on Kirill Serebrennikov’s course; since 2012 works at the Gogol Centre. Played one of the lead roles in Valeria Gai Germanika’s film “Yes and Yes”, and appeared in Serebrennnikov’s film “The Student” (2016, nomination for a NIKA Award in the category Best Supporting Actor). In 2015 debuted as director with the documentary film “#KOMUNARUSIZHITKHOROSHO”, which received a special jury mention at Dvizhenie [Movement] festival. In 2016 participated as co-author and video artist in the opera production “Iolantha. OPUS” (with Filipp Avdeev and Igor Bychkov), and released his second documentary “Russian Fairy Tales”.