Rauf Khalilov

Rauf Khalilov Azad oglu (born October 6, 1981 Baku, Azerbaijan) is a film director, composer, designer and producer. He is a member of the Directors Guild of Azerbaijan.

Biography In 1998 Rauf Khalilov graduated from the Azerbaijan State Academy of Fine Arts named after A. N. Alekperov, majoring in Music and Art. Since an early age, Rauf was also interested in mechanical engineering and astronomy which had a huge impact on his further work.

In 2002 Rauf Khalilov graduated from the Azerbaijan State Academy of Fine Arts with a bachelor's degree in Graphics.

Rauf is married and has one child. His father Azad Khalilov is a well-known painter of Azerbaijan.

Films and music Genres of Movies: drama, thriller.

Having made his first short film "One Minute and Four Seconds" in 2003 Rauf Khalilov began his career as a film director. He continued his career by making few other short films. Among them: "The Chairs" and "Stability". He directed his first feature movie "Ideal World" in Los Angeles in 2008. As a composer of electronic music in 2009 he released his first album "Monopolar World", followed by other well-known singles such as "Venus", "Good Morning Apollo" and "Out of Milky Way".

Video-Art

2002 – Orientalism 2003 – Desire 2004 – Exit 2004 – 3Days 2004 – Leadership and Power 2005 – Universal Game 2007 – Gravity Life 2007 – Morning Starts at 0:01 am

Short films

2003 – One Minute and Four Seconds 2010 – The Chairs 2011 – Stability

Feature film

2008 – Ideal World (Release in 2012) Los Angeles

Exhibitions and festivals

2000 Wings of Time, Azerbaijan 2000 Azerbaijan State Art Academy, Azerbaijan 2001 Azerbaijan Artists Union "Young Artists Exhibition" 2001 UNOCAL Ecology Poster Exhibition, Azerbaijan 2002 Orientalism: Inside & Outside. International Exhibition, Azerbaijan 2003 "Aluminium" Art+New Technoligies Festival of Contemporary Art, Azerbaijan 2003 "Appendix" International Art Exhibition, Tbilisi, Georgia 2004 International Short Film Festival "Oberhausen", Germany 2004 IV International Audiovisual Festival, Azerbaijan 2005 International Short Film Festival "Detmold", Germany 2007 52nd International Art Exhibition - La Biennale Di Venezia, Italy 2007 "Realities of Dreams" Aluminium 3rd International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Azerbaijan 2008 “NYIIFVF” New York International Independent Film and Video Festival , United States 2008 “STEPS of Time” Exhibition , Dresden, Germany 2010 “USSR-remix” project of visual art, photography, video-art and multimedia, Norway 2011 “Festival de Cannes, the Short Film Corner”, France 2012 "Festival de Cannes, the Short Film Corner", France 2013 "Azerbaijani family" film Festival, Azerbaijan

Music Genres of Music: – Ambient, Downtempo, Dub, Electro