Svetlana Yurievna Baskova (russian: Светлана Юрьевна Баскова; born 25 May 1965,

Moscow Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 million ...

) is a Russian movie director, screenwriter and painter.

Biography

Svetlana Baskova was born 25 May 1965 in Moscow. She graduated from

Moscow Architectural Institute Moscow Architectural Institute (State Academy) - MArchI (russian: Московский Архитектурный Институт (Государственная Академия) - МАрхИ) is a famous architecture school located in Moscow, ...

in 1989. Since 1996 she has been making video and movies. Her first movie, ''Cocky - Running Doctor'' was filmed in 1998. The film was produced by renowned artist and director Oleg Mavromatti. Baskova is perhaps most famous for her 1999 psychedelic exploitation horror film ''

The Green Elephant ''The Green Elephant'' (russian: Зелёный слоник, Zelyonyy slonik, also known as ''Green Elephant Calf'') is a 1999 Russian psychedelic exploitation horror film directed by Svetlana Baskova. The movie received a limited theatrical ...

''. The film has gradually gained a cult following due to the large number of scenes of violence,

necrophilia Necrophilia, also known as necrophilism, necrolagnia, necrocoitus, necrochlesis, and thanatophilia, is sexual attraction towards or a sexual act involving Cadaver, corpses. It is classified as a paraphilia by the World Health Organization (WHO) ...

and

coprophilia Coprophilia (from Greek κόπρος, ''kópros'' 'excrement' and φιλία, ''philía'' 'liking, fondness'), also called scatophilia or scat (Greek: σκατά, ''skatá'' 'feces'), is the paraphilia involving sexual arousal and pleasure from ...

. It has also become the subject of internet memes, fan-made music videos and YouTube Poops. Svetlana's next films: '' Five Bottles of Vodka'' and '' The Head'' became less surreal, but still contained a lot of dark humor, obscene language and psychedelic scenes. In 2010, filming began for the film ''

For Marx ''For Marx'' (french: Pour Marx) is a 1965 book by the philosopher Louis Althusser, a leading theoretician of the French Communist Party (PCF), in which the author reinterprets the work of the philosopher Karl Marx, proposing an epistemological ...

,'' about the struggle between the independent workers' trade union and the " New Russians".''Лилия Немченко''. В ожидании Маркса. «За Маркса…», режиссёр Светлана Баскова. «Искусство кино», 2012, № 8, АВГУСТ.
// kinoart.ru Проверено 31.07.2014 г. The premiere screening took place at the "Khudozhestvenny" cinema in

Ulyanovsk Ulyanovsk, known until 1924 as Simbirsk, is a city and the administrative center of Ulyanovsk Oblast, Russia, located on the Volga River east of Moscow. Population: The city, founded as Simbirsk (), was the birthplace of Vladimir Lenin (born ...

. Since 2011, she has been the director of the Baza Institute, created jointly by her husband

Anatoly Osmolovsky Anatoly Osmolovsky (Moscow, ), is a Russian visual artist, performer, theorist, editor and teacher. He resides in Moscow where he sculpts wood. Osmolovsky grounds his art in theory and supports his work with self-published writings in ''Radek'' ( ...

Filmography

* ''

Cocky — Running Doctor Cocky may mean: * boldly or brashly self-confident * Australian slang for cockatoo * Australian and New Zealand slang for farmer * Cocky (mascot), the mascot for the University of South Carolina athletics teams, a stylised gamecock * ''Cocky'' ( ...

'' (1998) * ''

'' (1999) * '' Five Bottles of Vodka'' (2001) * '' The Head'' (2003) * ''

Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 17565 December 1791), baptised as Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period (music), Classical period. Despite his short life, his ra ...

'' (2006) * ''

Only Decision is Resistance Only may refer to: Music Albums * ''Only'' (album), by Tommy Emmanuel, 2000 * ''The Only'', an EP by Dua Lipa, 2017 Songs * "Only" (Anthrax song), 1993 * "Only" (Nine Inch Nails song), 2005 * "Only" (Nicki Minaj song), 2014 * " The Only", by ...

'' (2011) * ''

'' (2012)

References

External links

Official site

Svetlana Baskova on «Iskusstvo Kino»
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