Julia Loktev

Julia Loktev ( born December 9, 1969 in Leningrad) is an American film director and video artist.

Biography

When she was 9 years old, her family emigrated to Colorado. She studied at McGill University in Montreal, then from 1996 at the New York University, where she submitted her film Moment of Impact in 1998 as a thesis. In it she documents the everyday lives of their parents, which is characterized by the severe disability of the father after a car accident in 1989. The film won several awards at various film festivals in 1998, including the Best Director Award at the Sundance Film Festival, Certificate of Merit at the San Francisco International Film Festival, the documentary prize of the Bavarian Television at the International Documentary Film Festival Munich and the prize for the best documentary at the International Film Festival Karlovy Vary.

Loktev video installations have also found international acclaim, including 2000 at PS1, 2002 at the Haus der Kunst in Munich and in 2004 at the Tate Modern.

For her first feature film, Day Night Day Night ( 2006), which depicts 48 hours in the life of a young suicide bomber in New York City, Loktev was again awarded with several prizes.