31 Facts About Dimitri Devyatkin

Dimitri Devyatkin was born on July 31,1949 and is an American director, producer, screenwriter, video artist, and journalist.

Dimitri Devyatkin is known as one of the first video makers to combine abstract synthesized imagery with camera footage.

Dimitri Devyatkin's programs have been broadcast domestically and internationally on ABC, PBS, Channel 4, WDR, France 3, TF1 and Channel One Russia.

Dimitri Devyatkin's works consist of digital media, computer art, broadcast news and feature filmmaking.

Dimitri Devyatkin attended New York City public schools, including the Bronx High School of Science.

Dimitri Devyatkin studied classical violin from the age of twelve at the Greenwich House Music School.

Dimitri Devyatkin studied modern music composition with Grammy-winning composer Joan Tower.

Dimitri Devyatkin organized video shows in the United States and Europe.

In 1973, Dimitri Devyatkin went to Moscow as an exchange student, studying Russian at Moscow State University and documentary film making under Russian director Roman Karmen at VGIK, the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography.

Dimitri Devyatkin met and worked with many other famous Russian filmmakers and participated in several popular feature films.

Dimitri Devyatkin videotaped performances by the Taganka Theatre, including Hamlet starring Russian actor Vladimir Vysotsky, and the play Ten Days That Shook the World based on the book of the same name.

Dimitri Devyatkin organized an international Computer Arts Festival at The Kitchen, which was held successfully for four years.

At the 1973 festival, Dimitri Devyatkin introduced early examples of computer generated film, video, graphics and music from around the world.

Thanks to his friendship with visionary Joseph Goldin, Dimitri Devyatkin documented experiments and demonstrations of hidden mental abilities.

Dimitri Devyatkin videotaped music and light psychotherapy experiments conducted by Natalia Bekhtereva and psychological teaching methods such as Suggestopedia.

Dimitri Devyatkin's work is mentioned in Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain.

In 1978, Dimitri Devyatkin collaborated with Nam June Paik to produce a light hearted comparison of life in the two cities, Media Shuttle: New York-Moscow on WNET.

Dimitri Devyatkin documented the marriage of two Fluxus pioneers, George Maciunas and Billie Hutching, in a series of Fluxus style performances in SoHo, Manhattan.

Dimitri Devyatkin spent time with John Lennon and invited him to teach a course the next day at the alternative high school where he was teaching, Elizabeth Cleaners Street School.

In 1983, Dimitri Devyatkin directed Video From Russia: The People Speak, which was narrated by Margot Kidder.

Dimitri Devyatkin worked with cameraman Eddie Becker and translator Berta Silva in the mountains of El Salvador to shoot battles and everyday life.

Dimitri Devyatkin directed Verkola: A Village in Northern Russia in 1986.

Dimitri Devyatkin started working for CBS News in 1988 to cover the Moscow Summit between US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev for the CBS Evening News and CBS News Sunday Morning.

Dimitri Devyatkin was a producer for Worldwide Television News, where he covered the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Armenian earthquake in Spitak and the Ecologists' Movement in the Baltic States.

Dimitri Devyatkin produced a series of interviews for MGM with Heroes of the Soviet Union.

In 1992, Dimitri Devyatkin was the line-producer on the Weather Is Good on Deribasovskaya, It Rains Again on Brighton Beach fiction movie.

In 2014, it was named one of the 100 Best Russian Films by Afisha Magazine and Dimitri Devyatkin was interviewed for the article.

Dimitri Devyatkin worked with Metromedia as a Director of Special Projects based in Moscow.

Dimitri Devyatkin was General Director of a dubbing studio in the Mosfilm lot.

Between 1999 and 2000, Dimitri Devyatkin worked with Streamedia Communications Inc as their vice president, Europe in Amsterdam and New York, where he created six content channels on the Internet.

Dimitri Devyatkin has worked extensively as a public speaker at universities, represented by the Jodi Solomon Speakers Bureau in Boston.