Mr. Kiperman has also written, directed, and produced several documentaries, including the award-winning VOICE JOURNEY and CONVERSATION WITH PAUL SCHRADER, featuring the legendary screenwriter of TAXI DRIVER and RAGING BULL. The program appeared several times on Philadelphia’s DUTV (Channel 54).
In the 2000s Zhenya Kiperman founded, produced and hosted THE GOLDEN AGE OF CINEMA FILM FESTIVAL; guest-speakers included Milos Forman, Tim Robbins, Steve Buscemi, Jim Jarmusch, Paul Mazursky, Marshall Brickman, Tom DiCillo, Griffin Dunne, Jake LaMotta, Isaach De Bankole, and Paul Auster. Mr. Kiperman’s festival interview with Tom DiCillo and Steve Buscemi about the making of DiCillo’s independent classic LIVING IN OBLIVION appeared as a special feature on the film’s DVD release in the USA, England and Spain.
Zhenya Kiperman’s publications include a book, DORMITORY, and numerous essays on film and literature published in the United States, Europe and Russia. Mr. Kiperman is the editor and one of the authors of the textbook EUROPEAN CINEMA: THE DEFINING FIGURES, MOVEMENTS, FILMS released in 2012.
Mr. Kiperman has taught at NYU, New School, Fordham, St. John’s, Drexel, and Kutztown Universities. He currently teaches film/literature courses at the Honors College of Drexel University.