Lado (Vladimir) Mujiri
, 1907 - 1953
Lado Mujiri (ლადო მუჯირი, Владимир Муджири, Vladimir Mudzhiri) was a pioneer of Georgian animation. He studied at the Georgian Academy of Arts and began working in film in 1929, becoming the director of Georgia’s first animation studio at the Georgian State Film Industry (SakhKinMretsvi). His first feature animated film was The Argonauts (Argonavtebi) produced in 1936. According to the database Kino-teatr.ru (accessed: February 21, 2019) he made 15 animation movies from 1930 to 1952.
Sources:
Sergei Asenin, Волшебники экрана [The Magicians of the Screen], Moscow: Iskusstvo, 1974, 257.
Lali Gorgaslidze, Lia Beruashvili, and Giannalberto Bendazzi, “Georgia”, in Bendazzi, Animation. The World History. Vol. 1: Foundations – The Golden Age, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016, 177–178.
Jimshir Mujiri, ‘მოგონებები შემოქმედსა და მამაზე’ [Mogonebebi Šemok‘medsa da Mamaze; Memories of the Creator and the Father], კინო [Kino; Cinema], 1988, 1: 53–69; 2: 76–93; 3: 79–107.
Bio prepared by Hanna Paulouskaya, University of Warsaw, hannapa@al.uw.edu.pl
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