- His first-person-POV music video Biting Elbows: Bad Motherfucker (2013) attracted approximately 33 million views on YouTube and another 21 million on Vimeo. The reactions were enthusiastic, for example director Darren Aronofsky wrote a Tweet, calling it "So well done" and Samuel L. Jackson wrote "This is some Buck Wild shit!". Timur Bekmambetov contacted Ilya Naishuller through Facebook and offered to produce a feature film in the same style.
- Was asked to create the opening of The Brothers Grimsby (2016) in his trademark POV style, but had to decline because he was already working on Hardcore Henry (2015).
- He was born in Moscow but spent the ages of 8 to 14 in London, UK.
- Speaks English and Russian fluently.
- Considered by Hideo Kojima as a "genius artist of 21st century music and video".
- Founder of Russian indie rock band Biting Elbows.
- Born on exactly the same date as Adam Driver of "Star Wars Episodes 7 thru 9" fame.
- He is of Ashkenazi Jewish and Russian descent.
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