Julia Loktev (born December 12, 1969) is a Russian-American film director and video artist. Loktev was born in Leningrad, Soviet Union (now St. Petersburg, Russia), and immigrated to the United States as a child. She lived in Colorado, where she lived until college. She moved to Montreal to study English and film at McGill University. Description above from the Wikipedia article Julia Loktev, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.