Sasha Litvintseva is an artist, filmmaker and writer, 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, CPH:DOX, Courtisane, Cinema Du Reel, Punto de Vista film festivals, the Baltic Triennial and Venice Architecture Biennale, Museum of the Moving Image New York, ICA London, LA Filmforum, Berlinische Galerie, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Transmediale, Videobrasil, Berlin Atonal, and Criterion Channel, among many others. Her films have won numerous awards internatioanally, including the Sylvestre Award for Best Short Film at IndieLisboa and Best Short Documentary at Guanajuato Film Festival.
Sasha is a senior lecturer in film at Queen Mary University of London and holds a PhD in Media, Communications and Cultural Studies from Goldsmiths. She is the author of Geological Filmmaking (Open Humanities Press, 2022), and the co-author, with Beny Wagner, of All Thoughts Fly: Monster, Taxonomy, Film (Sonic Acts Press, 2021). Her writing has also appeared in books and journals including e-flux and Environmental Humanities journals.
Upcoming and Recent
New book monograph Geological Filmmaking,
out now with Open Humanities Press
New film in development with European Media Art Platform (EMAP)
Hosted by IMPAKT Utrecht, November - December 2022
Constant: Bangkok Wolrd Film Festival,
Bangkok, Thailand, 8 December 2022
Talk on work in progress: ReCNTR research centre,
Leiden University, The Hague, The Netherlands, 24 November 2022
LIMA presents Sasha Litvintseva and Beny Wagner,
screening LAB111 Amsterdam, 23 November 2022
Constant, Kurzfilmfestival Koln,
Koln, Germany, 19 November 2022
A Demonstration, Kurzfilmfestival Koln,
Koln, Germany, 19 November 2022
Salarium: Ecology After Nature,
Tramway, Glasgow, 19 November 2022
Asbestos: Ecology After Nature,
Tramway, Glasgow, 18 November 2022
Constant: IMPAKT festival,
Utrecht, The Netherlands, 2-6 November, 2022
Constant: Imagine Science Film Festival,
NYC, USA, 14-20 October 2022
Constant: "In/Visible Measures" screening programme
Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio, USA, 12 October 2022
Constant: Curtocircuito film festival,
Spain, 2022, 1-9 October, 2022
Constant and A Demonstration solo screening at
e-flux screening room, NYC, USA, 27 September 2022
Constant : Asia Cultural Center,
Seoul, South Korea, 22 September 2022
Constant: Camden International Film Festival,
Points North Institute, USA, 15-18 September 2022
Constant: Open City Documentary Festival,
London, UK, screens on 10 September 2022
Constant: wins Best International Short Documentary,
Guanajuato Film Festival, Mexico, 2022
Constant: Chicago Underground Film Festival,
Chicago, USA, 27-31.07.2022
Constant: Guanajuato International Film Festival,
Guanajuato, Mexico, 21 - 28.7.2022
Constant: wins Jury Special Mention,
EXiS Seoul, 2022
Constant: EXiS Seoul Film Festival,
Seoul, Korea, 14 - 21.7.2022
Constant: Olhar De Cinema Festival,
Curitiba, Brazil, 1-9 June 2022
Interview in Senses of Cinema
Constant: wins the Silvestre Award for Short Film,
Indie Lisboa, 2022
Constant: Prismatic Ground film festival,
Maysles Documentary Centre, New York, 5-8 May 2022
Constant: Indie Lisboa Film Festival, Silvestre Competition,
Lisbon, Portugal, 30 April - 5 May, 2022
A Demonstration joins Criterion Channel collection,
streaming from April 2022
Constant: Courtisane Film Festival,
Ghent, Belgium, 31 March - 3 April 2022
Interview in BOMB Magazine
Interview in Filmmaker Magazine
Constant: CPH:DOX, NEW:VISION competition,
Copenhagen, Denmark, 23 March - 3 April 2022
Constant: First Look, Museum of the Moving Image,
New York, USA, 16-20 March 2022
Constant: Ammodo Tiger Shorts Competition,
International Film Festival Rotterdam, NL, 26.01-06.02.2022
HKW, Berlin, Germany, 28-29 January 2022
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
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
e-flux screening room, NYC, USA, 2022
LIMA at LAB111, Amsterdam, USA, 2022
Los Angeles Film Forum, USA, 2021
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, USA, 2019
ICA, London, UK, 2018
Union Docs, NYC, USA, 2018
Garage Museum, Moscow, Russia, 2018
Close-Up Film Centre, London, UK, 2017
Nightingale Cinema, Chicago, USA, 2016
Microlights, Milwaukee, USA, 2016
VISIONS, Montreal, Canada, 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)
Rotterdam International Film Festival, The Netherlands: 2022 / 2017
CPH:DOX, Copenhagen, Denmark: 2022
Courtisane Film Festival, Ghent, Belgium: 2022 / 2017 / 2016
Guanajuato Film Festival, Mexico: 2022 / 2020
Indie Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal: 2022
Curtocircuito Festival, Santiago de Compostela, Spain: 2022 / 2020
EXiS Seoul, Korea: 2022
Open City Docs Festival, London, UK: 2022 / 2012
Chicago Underground Film Festival, USA: 2022 / 2020 / 2017 / 2016 / 2015
Olhar de Cinema, Curitiba, Brazil: 2022
Camden International Film Festival, USA: 2022
Prismatic Ground, Maysles Documentary Center, NY: 2022 / 2021
Punto de Vista documentary Film Festival, Pamplona, Spain: 2021
Vilnius International Film Festival, Lithuania: 2021 / 2020
Berlinale, Germany: 2020 / 2017
Kasseler Dokfest, Germany: 2020 / 2018 / 2017 / 2016 / 2015 /
2014 / 2012
Moscow International Experimental Film Festival: 2020 / 2017
Bucharest Experimental Film Festival, Romania: 2020
Vancouver Film Festival, Canada: 2020
RIDM, Montreal, Canada: 2018
Cinema du Reel, Paris, France: 2018 / 2016
Alchemy Film Festival, Hawick, Scotland: 2018 / 2016 / 2015
Edinburgh International Film Festival, Scotland: 2017 / 2015
Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA: 2016 / 2015
L'Alternativa Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain: 2016
Kino Der Kunst, Munich, Germany: 2015
Festival Du Nouveau Cinema, Montreal, Canada: 2015
Alternative Film and Video Festival, Belgrade, Serbia: 2015 / 2013
Aesthetica Short Film Festival, York, UK: 2014 / 2012
Antimatter Film Festival, Victoria BC, Canada: 2014 / 2012
Group shows (selection)
Transmediale, HKW, Berlin, Germany, 2022
In/Visible Measures, Wexner Center for the Arts, USA, 2022
Ecology After Nature, Tramway Glasgow, Scotland, 2022
IMPAKT festival, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 2022
Asia Cultural Center cinemateque, Seoul, South Korea, 2022
Baltic Triannial, CAC Vilnius, Lithuania, 2021
LOOP fair, Barcelona, Spain, 2021
Media Art Biennale WRO, Wroclaw, Poland, 2021 / 2015
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
Third from the Sun, Mumok, Vienna, Austria, 2019
Werkleitz festival Modell und Ruine, Dessau, Germany, 2019
Berlin Atonal, Berlin, Germany, 2019 / 2018
Sonic Acts, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2019 / 2018 / 2017
Moscow Young Art Biennale, Moscow, Russia, 2018 / 2016
FRONT Triennial, Cleveland Museum of Art, USA, 2018
Vorspiel Transmediale, Vilem Flusser Archive, Berlin, Germany, 2018
Matter of Horror, Solyanka gallery, Moscow, Russia, 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
DAMA Live program, Palazzo Saluzzo Paesana, Torino, Italy, 2017
CITIZENSFIVE, Art Athina, Athens, Greece, 2017
Perfect Lives, Kunstverein Gottingen, Gottingen, Germany, 2016
O’ Mystical East and West, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, 2016
World Music, Carlos/Ishikawa Gallery, London, UK, 2014
Publications
Geological Filmmaking, Open Humanities Press, 2022
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, 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, Cours De Poetique, 2020
'Geological Filmmaking: Seeing Film Through Geology and Geology Through Film’, in Transformations no. 32, 2018
‘Sinkholes in Signification’, with Daniel Mann, Sonic Acts Reader, Sonic Acts, 2018
Talks (selection)
Artist talk, IXDM, University of Basel, Switzerland, 2022
Artist talk, ReCNTR, University of Leiden, Leiden, NL, 2022
Keynote, IMPAKT festival, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 2022
Invited lecture, Humboldt University, Germany 2022
Paper, Visible Evidence conference, University of Frankfurt, 2021
Keynote, Universidade Catolica Portuguesa, Porto, Portugal, 2021
Invited lecture, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, NL, 2019
Invited lecture, Sonic Acts, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2019
Invited lecture, Visual Cultures public program, Goldsmiths, 2019
Invited lecture, Sonic Acts Academy, Amsterdam, NL, 2018
Lecture performance, Plato Gallery, Ostrava, Czech Republic, 2017
Invited lecture, rongwrong, Amsterdam, NL, 2017
Paper, Digital Ecologies, Bath Spa University, UK, 2017
Invited lecture, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK, 2017
Paper, Space and Cinema conference, University of Lisbon, 2016
Paper, Filmforum conference, Universita Udina, Italy, 2015
Awards
Silvestre Award for Short Film for Constant, Indie Lisboa, 2022
Best International Short Documentary, Guanajuato Film Festival, 2022
Jury Special Mention for Constant, EXiS Seoul, 2022
British Council Travel Grant Fund, 2022 / 2017 / 2015
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 for Exile Exotic, GoEast Open Frame Award, 2017
Full AHRC CHASE funding for PhD, 2016-2018
Postgraduate Annual Fund Scholarship, Kingston University, 2014
Boise Scholarship, UCL, 2012
Audrey Wykeham Academic Excellence Prize, UCL, 2012