ArbatFilm is a production company founded in 2008 by Oleg Timofeyev and Sabine I. Gölz. Christopher Renaud joined in the fall of the same year.
ArbatFilm specializes in video documentaries that focus on musical topics, with a serious intellectual and historical dimension, and usually on Russian or Eastern European themes.
We also offer complete film music services: Internationally renowned recording artists Oleg Timofeyev and Natalia Timofeyeva will develop, compose, and record an original score for your film. To contact him about commissioning music, or about pricing, please write to Oleg Timofeyev using the contact form.
About Us
Arbatfilm
Oleg Timofeyev
Both performer and scholar, Oleg Timofeyev is an expert on Early Music, Russian and Eastern European musical traditions, and on national and ethnic musical styles. His main instruments are the lute and the Russian 7-string guitar. Since 1999, he also has been teaching Soviet film, Russian literature, and the Russian Roma at the University of Iowa, and the history of musical styles at conservatoires in Moscow and Kiev. His publications include a range of articles on the guitar in Russia, including entries in several standard musical reference works. One of the most prolific Russian guitarists living outside of Russia, he has to date released 12 CD recordings on international labels (Germany, Canada, Hong Kong, and US) to highly appreciative reviews.
In addition to his expertise in music, Timofeyev also brings many years of experience with sound recording and sound editing to ArbatFilm. He recently returned from a year in Kyiv, Ukraine, funded by a Fulbright research and teaching grant, where he collected footage for several new documentaries.
Discography: Semistrunka
In addition to his expertise in music, Timofeyev also brings many years of experience with sound recording and sound editing to ArbatFilm. He recently returned from a year in Kyiv, Ukraine, funded by a Fulbright research and teaching grant, where he collected footage for several new documentaries.
Discography: Semistrunka
Sabine I. Gölz
Sabine I. Gölz teaches at the University of Iowa's Department of Cinema and Comparative Literature. She is the author of The Split Scene of Reading: Nietzsche/ Derrida/ Kafka/ Bachmann (Humanities Press, 1998), as well as numerous articles on literature and literary theory. Professor Gölz's signature style involves the analysis of both texts and images, as in her articles on Moscow Bridges (Public Culture, 2006) and on a manuscript by Walter Benjamin (Benjamin-Studien, 2008).
Since 2001, Gölz has been developing a career of a creative photographer. Her works have been exhibited in Moscow, Paris, and various locations in the U.S. Gölz is the co-director and director, camera-operator and video-editor of ArbatFilm's first documentary, Frautschi, and its second film, Take Off One Ear (22 minutes). She is at work on several projects focusing on Karoline von Günderrode, manuscripts of Franz Kafka and Walter Benjamin, as well as on ArbatFilm’s next documentary projects.
Photo Galleries: Moscow Under Wraps and Sabine Gölz Photographs
Since 2001, Gölz has been developing a career of a creative photographer. Her works have been exhibited in Moscow, Paris, and various locations in the U.S. Gölz is the co-director and director, camera-operator and video-editor of ArbatFilm's first documentary, Frautschi, and its second film, Take Off One Ear (22 minutes). She is at work on several projects focusing on Karoline von Günderrode, manuscripts of Franz Kafka and Walter Benjamin, as well as on ArbatFilm’s next documentary projects.
Photo Galleries: Moscow Under Wraps and Sabine Gölz Photographs
Christopher Renaud
Christopher Renaud has 16 short films to his credit, some of them award-winning. He has worked on a great many more as cinematographer, lighting designer, sound recordist, and sound mixer. For several years, he has been teaching courses in Film and Video Production as well as Screen Writing at the University of Iowa's Department of Cinema and Comparative Literature, where he is currently completing his MFA degree in Film and Video Production.
