Sasha Litvintseva is an artist filmmaker and writer researcher, whose work is situated on the uncertain thresholds of the perceptible and the communicable, organism and environment, and knowledge regimes and power, at the intersection of media, ecology and the history of science. Since 2018, much of her work is produced in the context of the ongoing collaboration with Beny Wagner.
Her work has been exhibited and screened worldwide including at the Berlinale, Rotterdam, Courtisane, Cinema Du Reel, Punto de Vista, RIDM film festivals, the Baltic Triennial and Venice Architecture Biennale, MUMOK Vienna, CAC Vilnius, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Museum of the Moving Image New York, ICA London, Berlinische Galerie, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, CIAP Kunstverein Genk, Videobrasil, Sonic Acts, Berlin Atonal, among many others.
Sasha is a lecturer in film at Queen Mary University of London and holds a PhD in Media, Communications and Cultural Studies from Goldsmiths. She is currently working on a book monograph on Geological Filmmaking (Open Humanities Press), and is the co-author, with Beny Wagner, of the book All Thoughts Fly: Monster, Taxonomy, Film (Sonic Acts Press). Her writing has also appeared in books and journals including e-flux and Environmental Humanities journals.
Upcoming and Recent
A Demonstration: Stuttgarter Filmwinter Film and Media Festival,
Stuttgart, Germany, 9-18 January 2022
Invited Lecture: 'Monsters, Measures and Materials', Dis/Entangling Perspectives in Material Research lecture series,
Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, 3 January 2022
Conference paper: ’Monstrare’: Documenting Beyond the Indexical’, Visible Evidence conference, University of Frankfurt, 18 Dec 2021
Keynote talk: 'Monsters, Measures and Movements',
[e]motion Graduate Conference of Science and Technology of the Arts, Universidade Catolica Portuguesa, Porto, 10 December 2021
A Demonstration: 'Repeated Apparitions' screening,
The Horse Hospital, London, UK, 26 November, 2021
Every Rupture: LOOP, Barcelona
16-18 November 2021
Every Rupture: ‘The New Normal’ at Volkstheater,
Vienna, Austria, 17 October 2021
A Demonstration: Adrift: Sasha Litvintseva and Beny Wagner
Los Angeles Film Forum, USA, 17 October 2021
A Demonstration: New Waves Competition
La Roche-Sur-Yon Film Festival, France, 11.10 - 17.10.2021
A Demonstration: 18th Dokfilmwoche Hamburg
Hamburg, Germany, 15.9 - 19.9.2021
Book: All Thoughts Fly: Monster Taxonomy Film,
Sonic Acts Press - available now
Every Rupture, Baltic Triennial,
CAC Vilnius, 04.06.2021 opening events
Every Rupture, Media Art Biennale WRO,
Wroclaw, Poland, 12-15.05.21 opening events
Panel discussion: 'Elemental Geography and Geo-Filmmaking',
NYU Shanghai, 3.05.2021
Every Rupture, Vilnius Film Festival,
Lithuania, 30.04-06.05.2021
Lecture: 'Geological Filmmaking', TU Delft, Urban Design,
Delta Urbanism seminar, 23.04.2021
A Demonstration: Prismatic Ground Festival,
Maysles Documentary Centre, NY, USA, 8-18.04.2021
Book launch: 'All Thoughts Fly: Monster, Taxonomy, Film',
Online on CIAP Kunstverein, 31.03.2021
Every Rupture, Strangloscope Film Festival,
Brazil, 19-27.03.21
Every Rupture festival premiere: Punto de Vista film festival,
Pamplona Spain, 15-20.03.21
Essay: 'Monster as Medium: Experiments in Perception in Early Modern Science and Film', with Beny Wagner, e-flux journal
Geological Filmmaking, conference paper, RAI film festival and conference, 2021
Exile Exotic screening: Post Soviet Histories, REDCAT,
Los Angeles, USA, 15.03.21
CIAP Kunstverein, Genk, Belgium, 17.01.21-14.03.21
Every Rupture included in:
Frieze magazine's Top Ten Virtual Shows
Every Rupture solo show
Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland, 14-28.01.2021
London Short Film Festival: International Competition
London, UK, 15-24.1.21
2020: A Year in Review screening
AEMI, Ireland, 16.12.2020-30.01.2021
Education
PhD Media and Communications, Goldsmiths, UK, 2015-2019
MA Experimental Film, Kingston University, UK, 2014-2015
BA Fine Art, Slade School of Art, UCL, UK, 2008-2012
Solo exhibitions
A Demonstration, CIAP Kunstverein, Genk, Belgium, 2021
Every Rupture, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland, 2021
The Stability of the System, Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt, Germany, 2019
Sasha Litvintseva, 12x12, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, Germany, 2018
Asbestos, Vilem Flusser archive, Berlin, Germany, 2018
Asbestos, Roaming Projects, London, UK, 2017
Exile Exotic, Super Dakota gallery, Brussels, Belgium, 2016
What We Name, We Can Contain, Union Pacific, London, UK, 2015
Evergreen, AC Institute, New York, USA, 2015
Solo screenings
Adrift, Los Angeles Film Forum, USA, 2021
Sasha Litvintseva, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, USA, 2019
Salarium, ICA, London, UK, 2018
Union Docs, NYC, USA, 2018
Garage Museum, Moscow, Russia, 2018
Close-Up Film Centre, London, UK, 2017
ISSMag gallery, Moscow, Russia, 2016
Nightingale Cinema, Chicago, USA, 2016
Microlights, Milwaukee, USA, 2016
VISIONS, Montreal, Canada, 2016
Courtisane Festival, Ghent, Belgium, 2016
Union Docs, NYC, USA, 2016
Image/Movement, Berlin, Germany, 2015
IMT Gallery, London, UK, 2015
Edinburgh Film Guild, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2015
Film festivals (Selection)
Punto de Vista documentary Film Festival, Pamplona, Spain: 2021
Dokfilmwoche, Hamburg, Germany: 2021
La Roche-Sur-Yon Film Festival, France: 2021
Vilnius International Film Festival, Lithuania: 2021 / 2020
Strangloscope Festival, Brazil: 2021
Berlinale, Germany: 2020 / 2017
Kasseler Dokfest, Germany: 2020 / 2018 / 2017 / 2016 / 2015 /
2014 / 2012
Moscow International Experimental Film Festival: 2020 / 2017
Chicago Underground Film Festival, USA: 2020 / 2017 / 2016 / 2015
Curtocircuito Festival, Santiago de Campostela, Spain: 2020
Guanajuato Film Festival, Mexico: 2020
Bucharest Experimental Film Festival, Romania: 2020
Vancouver Film Festival, Canada: 2020
Imagine Science Film Festival, New York, USA: 2020
London Short Film Festival, UK: 2020
RIDM, Montreal, Canada: 2018
Cinema du Reel, Paris, France: 2018 / 2016
Alchemy Film Festival, Hawick, Scotland: 2018 / 2016 / 2015
DocAviv, Tel Aviv, Israel: 2018
2 Annas Film Festival, Riga, Latvia: 2018
International Festival of Video Art, Casablanca, Morocco: 2018
Rotterdam International Film Festival, The Netherlands: 2017
Courtisane Film Festival, Ghent, Belgium: 2017 / 2016
Edinburgh International Film Festival, Scotland: 2017 / 2015
Plastik Film Festival, Dublin, Ireland: 2017
Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA: 2016 / 2015
L'Alternativa Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain: 2016
Sheffield Fringe, Sheffield, UK: 2016
NexT Film Festival, Bucharest, Romania: 2016 / 2014
Winnipeg Underground Film Festival, Winnipeg, Canada: 2016
Kino Der Kunst, Munich, Germany: 2015
Festival Du Nouveau Cinema, Montreal, Canada: 2015
ArtvideoKOELN, Cologne, Germany: 2015
Alternative Film and Video Festival, Belgrade, Serbia: 2015 / 2013
Athens Film and Video Festival, Athens, Ohio, USA: 2015 / 2014
Aesthetica Short Film Festival, York, UK: 2014 / 2012
Antimatter Film Festival, Victoria BC, Canada: 2014 / 2012
Open City Docs Festival, London, UK: 2012
Group shows (selection)
Baltic Triannial, CAC Vilnius, Lithuania, 2021
LOOP fair, Barcelona, Spain, 2021
Media Art Biennale WRO, Wroclaw, Poland, 2021
Abandon Normal Devices, Manchester, UK, 2021
Post Soviet Histories, REDCAT, Los Angeles, USA, 2021
Russian Pavilion, Venice Architecture Biennale, 2020
Baltic Triannial Intro, CAC Vilnius, Lithuania, 2020
New Nature, Moving Image Museum, New York, USA, 2020
New Nature, Goethe Institut, Montreal, Canada, 2020
The Allure of Matter, Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, USA, 2020
Ecology Without Nature, e-flux Video and Film, 2020
Touch Me, Kontejner, Zagreb, Croatia, 2020
Centropia, CTM Vorspiel, Centrum, Berlin, Germany, 2020
Kaleidoskop.Fragments, Karlsplatz, Vienna, Austria, 2020
Third from the Sun, Mumok, Vienna, Austria, 2019
Werkleitz festival Modell und Ruine, Dessau, Germany, 2019
Berlin Atonal, Berlin, Germany, 2019
Sonic Acts, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2019
Lofoten International Art Festival, Svolvaer, Norway, 2019
BelVedere, Teatro dei Fauni, Locarno, Switzerland, 2019
FRONT Triennial, Cleveland Museum of Art, USA, 2018
Moscow Young Art Biennale, Moscow, Russia, 2018
Vorspiel Transmediale, Vilem Flusser Archive, Berlin, Germany, 2018
Matter of Horror, Solyanka gallery, Moscow, Russia, 2018
Sonic Acts Academy, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2018
Berlin Atonal, Berlin, Germany, 2018
I am not a robot, Electromuseum, Moscow, Russia, 2018
The New Local, Kaaitheater, Brussels, Belgium, 2018
Light/Landscape Sense, Macao, Milan, Italy, 2018
Videobrasil, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2017
Morphogenesis, Fransisco Fino Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal, 2017
Willing the Possible, Mars gallery, Istanbul, Turkey, 2017
Last words, so it goes, Turf Projects, London, UK, 2017
Sonic Acts Festival, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2017
DAMA Live program, Palazzo Saluzzo Paesana, Torino, Italy, 2017
CITIZENSFIVE, Art Athina, Athens, Greece, 2017
HYPERCONNECTED, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Russia, 2016
Perfect Lives, Kunstverein Gottingen, Gottingen, Germany, 2016
La Galerie du Temps, Maus Habitos, Porto, Portugal, 2016
Progress Bar, Lighthouse gallery, Brighton, UK, 2016
Inland Art Festival, Redruth, UK, 2016
O’ Mystical East and West, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, 2016
Wondering Out of Time, Fabrica Gallery, Brighton, UK, 2016
Media Art Biennale WRO, Wroclaw, Poland, 2015
6th Sense, Minibar gallery, Stockholm, Sweden, 2015
Anthropocentricities, Inova Gallery, Milwaukee, USA, 2015
Portal Atop a Bus Stop, Red Barn gallery, Santa Barbara, USA, 2015
World Music, Carlos/Ishikawa Gallery, London, UK, 2014
Publications
All Thoughts Fly: Monster, Taxonomy, Film, with Beny Wagner, Amsterdam: Sonic Acts Press, 2021
'Monster as Medium: Experiments in Perception in Early Modern Science and Film', with Beny Wagner, e-flux journal, March 2021
‘Asbestos: Inside and Outside, Toxic and Haptic’, in Environmental Humanities vol. 11 no. 1, special issue on ‘Toxic Embodiment’, 2019
'Never Odd or Even - on Palindromes and Metaphors', with Beny Wagner, Hereafter, Sonic Acts, 2019
'From Exile to Entropy: Notes on Protagonists and the Posthistorical’, Migrations in New Cinema, ed. Ektoras Arkomanis, Cours De Poetique, 2020
'Geological Filmmaking: Seeing Film Through Geology and Geology Through Film’, in Transformations no. 32, special issue on ‘Ecological Thinking of the Moving Image’, 2018
‘Sinkholes in Signification’, with Daniel Mann, Sonic Acts Reader, Sonic Acts, 2018
Talks and conference papers
'Monsters, Measures and Materials', invited lecture in collaboration with Beny Wagner, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany 2022
'Monstrare’: Documenting Beyond the Indexical’, conference paper in collaboration with Beny Wagner, Visible Evidence conference, University of Frankfurt, 2021
'Monsters, Measures and Movements', keynote talk in collaboration with Beny Wagner, [e]motion Graduate Conference of Science and Technology of the Arts, Universidade Catolica Portuguesa, Porto, 2021
Geological Filmmaking, conference paper, RAI film festival and conference, 2021
Geological Filmmaking, invited lecture, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Museum for Architecture, Design and Digital Culture, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 2019
Universal Syntax, invited lecture in collaboration with Beny Wagner, Sonic Acts, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2019
Sinkholes in Signification, invited lecture in collaboration with Daniel Mann, "Hostile Environments" public program, Visual Cultures department, Goldsmiths, 2019
This is not a hole: sinkholes in signification, invited lecture in collaboration with Daniel Mann, Sonic Acts Academy, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2018
The Hero’s Tail, invited lecture in collaboration with Beny Wagner, Plato Gallery, Ostrava, Czech Republic, 2017
haptics/optics inside/outside, invited lecture at rongwrong, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2017
Asbestos and the moving image: (in)visibility, (im)materiality, (un)certainty, conference paper, Digital Ecologies in the Anthropocene symposium, Bath Spa University, UK, 2017
Geological Filmmaking: Agential Matter and Evidential Fiction, talk as part of Object! Documentary as Art, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK, 2017
Curating the Moving Image, panel discussion, Plastik Festival, Dublin, Ireland, 2017
Guest lecture, Cass School of Art, London Metropolitan University, London, UK, 2017
Guest lecture, Royal College of Art, London, UK, 2016
Geological Filmmaking and Missing Land, conference paper, Space and Cinema conference, University of Lisbon, Portugal, 2016
The Labour of Editing and the Gesture of Mounting, conference paper with Mihaela Brebenel, Filmforum Conference, Gorizia, Italy, 2016
Guest lecture, Wellesley College, Massachusetts, USA, 2015
Curatorial
November Film Festival, co-curated, London, UK, 2016 and 2018
Mediating Deep Space and Time Workshop series, Goldsmiths, 2017
Vertical Landscapes, PLASTIK film festival, Dublin, Ireland, 2017
Myths of Matter and Memory, POSTmatter online magazine, 2016
Place is the Space season, Goldsmiths, London, UK, 2016
Spectres of the Future, VISIONS, Montreal, Canada, 2016
The Algorithm as Necropolitical Control, Goldsmiths, UK 2016
As if it never happened, Goldsmiths College, London, UK, 2015
Archaeologies of the Present: Place, LUX, London, UK, 2015
Archaeologies of the Present: Excavation, a.m., London, UK, 2015
Awards
A Demonstration runner up German Short Film Prize, 2020
Best Visual Concept Prize for A Demonstration, BIEFF, 2020
Production funding, Medienbord Berlin-Brandenburg, 2018
Best documentary for Salarium, 2 Annas film festival, 2018
Best soundtrack for Salarium, Cinema du reel, 2018
Special mention GoEast Open Frame Award, 2017
British Council Travel Grant Fund, 2017
Full AHRC CHASE funding for PhD, 2016-2018
Postgraduate Annual Fund Scholarship, Kingston University, 2014
Boise Scholarship granted to fund the production of Evergreen, 2012
Audrey Wykeham Academic Excellence Prize, 2012