Dmitri Frolov

Dmitrii Alexeyevich Frolov (; born February 27, 1966) is a Russian film director in independent experimental cinema and a director of photography.

Biography Russian experimental filmmaker Dmitri Frolov is known for his abstract, atmospheric films that explore themes of memory, time, and existential reflection through minimalist visual storytelling. Frolov was born in Leningrad on February 27, 1966. In 1990, he graduated from the University of Cinema and Television. A screenwriter, director and cameraman, Frolov took part in more than 30 short films. He was included in several domestic film festivals – including Kinoshok in Anapa, Pure Dreams in St. Petersburg, and Cine Phantom Fest in Moscow – and foreign ones. He also shot music videos for the group Auktsion, and worked as the senior operator of the TV channel 100TV.

He makes aesthetic experiments connecting with return to silent cinema on new level of film language.

He is a laureate of the National Award "TEFI-2008" in the nomination "Operator of a TV film / series".

In 2022 he won the special festival mention award at the first season of Casablanca Film Factory Awards.

Filmography

Director

Films 1987 – Dream 1988 – The Way 1988 – Metamorphosis 1988 – Theater. Afterword 1989 – Act 1989 – Clownery 1990 – Without words 1990 – The Second Birth 1991 – KARA 1991 – Psycho Attack Over Soviets 1991 – The Leaving 1991 – Beekeeper 1990–1993 – The Big Moon Nights 1994 – Do not august, 1991 1994 – Stairway to the sky 1995 – Above the Lake (silent version) 1995 – Underwater Guest 1996 – Das Es 1997 – Be Careful! 1997 – Ten minutes of silence 1998 – The Little Sotmaid 1999 – Rumba 2000 – Decease 2001 – The Granny's Apocrypha 2002 – Tango Nightingale 2002 – The Two 1991–2003 – Phantoms of white nights 2004 – The daddy's meat 2006 – Above the Lake (version with sound) 2010 – Wellspring 2010 – The Birth of Music 2010 – Conversation 2016 – The Lone 2017 – Last Love 2018 – Winter Will Not Be 2019 – Moonlight People 2020 – Borodino 2021 – Astronaut's Uniform 2022 – Dreams of the Past 2024 – Adagio 2025 – Dinner

Video clips 1991 – Let her know (group "Esty") 1992 – The crazy city (the group "Inflatable gun") 2000 – Something like this (Leonid Fedorov ("Auktsion") 2000 – There will be no winters (Leonid Fedorov ("Auktsion") 2000 – Head-leg (Leonid Fedorov ("Auktsion") 2000 – Lady Dee (Leonid Fedorov ("Auktsion") 2000 – Far away (Leonid Fedorov ("Auktsion") 2002 – Yagoda (Leonid Fedorov ("Auktsion") 2002 – Catholics (Leonid Fedorov ("Auktsion") 2003 – Let (Leonid Fedorov ("Auktsion") 2017 – Time, back! (Sergey Oskolkov)

Cinematographer

1993 – The Battle of Leningrad (directed by N. Klyuchnikov) 1994 – The life and adventures of 4 friends (directed by O. Yeryshev) 1994–1995 – A series of documentary reports about Timur Novikov and the New Academy of Fine Arts (directed by L. Chibor) 1995 – The acceptance of fate (directed by L. Chibor) 1996 – Presence (directed by A.Kuklin) 1996 – After 300 years (director G.Novikov) 1998 – Courant (directed by A.Kuklin) 1999 – Artist Gleb Bogomolov (director L. Chibor) 2000 – How "Brother-2" was shot (director V.Nepevny, T. Ober) 2000 – Nobody writes to the Colonel (video clip of the BI-2 group) 2000 – The Wizard of our city (directed by R. Rachev) 2000 – Ugar (directed by G.Novikov) 2001 – Dark Night (directed by O. Kovalov (samples) 2001 – Daughter of Albion (directed by K.Kasatov) 2001 – Fairy Tales (directed by B.Gorlov, K.Kasatov) 2002 – Song (directed by L. Yunina) 2002 – Mozart. Fantasy in the cafe (director G.Novikov) 2003 – "Adjacent Rooms" (directed by K.Seliverstov) 2003 – Kira (directed by V.Nepevny) 2004 – Living in History (directed by G.Novikov) 2004 – Children of corn (director M.Zheleznikov) 2004 – Merry plumber (director V.Nepevny) 2005 – Light in August (director G.Novikov) 2005 – "School of Baba Yaga" (directed by A.Chikichev) 2007 – "The color of time" (directed by K.Kasatov) 2008 – "Children of the Siege" (directed by A.Chikichev) 2008 – "Autograph of Time" (directed by A.Chikichev) 2008 – "Hello, the land of heroes!" (Directed by A.Chikichev) 2009 – "My contemporaries" (directed by A.Chikichev) 2009 – "For Home Viewing" (directed by M.Zheleznikov) 2010 – "Vasily Turkin. The book about the fighter "(directed by S. Lyalkin) 2010 – "The Seasons" (directed by S. Lyalkin) 2013 – "A Successful Visit" (directed by L. Galkin) 2017 – "Unknown Leningrad Region" (directed by S. Lyalkin) 2017 – "Last Love" 2019 – "Moonlight People" 2022 – "Dreams of the Past" TV: 1996–1999 – series of programs "Line of Cinema" (ORT-1 channel) (prize of the festival "White pillars" in 1999)

Actor

Year Title Role 1987 Dream A character, a mime 1988 The Way 1st Comrade Metamorphosis Figure 1989 Clownery Daniil Harms1993 The Bigmoon Nights A Man with an Accordion Shatanger Aylok Unutor Flor 2002 Tango Nightingale The Male 2020 Borodino Bagration and Kutuzov's adjutant 2022 Dreams of the Past Officer