Feelings & Streamings / Digital Takeover
2026 | Go Short - International Short Film Festival Nijmegen | Netherlands
Two screenings examining how digital technologies reshape subjectivity, tracing how platforms and streaming cultures intensify emotion and model behaviour, and questioning whether photorealistic virtual worlds and camera-less filmmaking signal the death of cinema or its radical transformation. Curated within Go Short’s Re/Fresh strand with Vladimir Nadein.

Sergei Loznitsa: Inside the Machine of Soviet Terror
2026 | Pushkin House | Curzon | London, UK
Screenings of Two Prosecutors and The Trial, followed by a public conversation exploring how Sergei Loznitsa’s formally rigorous approach reveals Soviet terror as a system sustained through banal procedures and institutional “normality” of staged justice.

On Algorithmic Cinema
2025 | Ba-nana | Iwakura, Japan
A talk, film screening and discussion at the Ba-nana Film Club as part of my residency program at Project Space hazi, dedicated to films created using video games or game engines, desktop cinema and various forms of generative video.

Healing Cinema
2025 | Project Space hazi | Iwakura, Japan
A talk, film screening and discussion dedicated to the therapeutic potential of moving image art and its sensory, material and temporal qualities. Through excerpts from abstract, hypnotic videos, radically slow or minimalist films, and popular Internet video formats such as ASMR, the session considers how sound, tempo, light and colour can shift perception and offer spaces for meditation, relaxation and perceptual retraining.

Healing Screens
2025 | Barlinale | Tennis Bar | Berlin, Germany
Healing Screens explores the potential of moving images to support emotional well-being in contemporary art and cinema. This positive effect can arise from the direct affective impact of a film on the viewer’s body or psyche, as seen, for example, in ASMR videos, as well as in extremely minimalist decelerating films. Additionally, there are cases of artists using the filmmaking process as a form of self-therapy, further demonstrating the medium’s healing potential.

Machinima: Gamepad Filmmaking
2024 | Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival | Romania
A programme of experimental films made using video games and game engines to subvert gameplay, critique digital realism, and explore online behaviour, world-building, and the poetic potential of misuse. With works by Jon Rafman, Sondra Perry, Harun Farocki, Radu Jude, Aleksandar Radan, among others. Curated with Vladimir Nadein.

The Lonely Voice of Man: Films of Alexander Sokurov
2024 | Pushkin House | ICA | Close-Up | Bertha DocHouse | London, UK
A film programme dedicated to the acclaimed Soviet and Russian filmmaker Alexander Sokurov that features the UK premiere of his most recent work, Fairytale, and offered the opportunity to explore the major facets of his cinematic universe.

Glitch Film: The Art of Error
2024 | MAMA Zagreb | DKSG Belgrade | Croatia & Serbia
A short film programme showcasing experimental filmmakers who use techniques like glitch art to subvert mainstream narratives, critique the perceived stability and neutrality of media technologies, and highlight the beauty in error, obsolescence and misuse. With works by Rosa Menkman, Riar Rizaldi, Pekka Sassi, Billy Roisz, among others. Curated with Ejla Kovačević.

Machinima: Beyond Gameplay
2024 | Minimalen Short Film Festival | Trondheim, Norway
A three-part programme providing an insightful look into the artistic potential of machinima, showcasing how contemporary artists and filmmakers use video game engines to create diverse and reflective works. Works by Lawrence Lek, George Roxby-Smith, Andrea Gatopoulos, Grayson Earle, among others. Curated with Vladimir Nadein.

Pixels in Focus
2024 | Fotografiska Berlin | Germany
A short film programme examining the intersection of photography and video games, followed by a panel discussion with Thomas Spies, a media scholar and a practitioner of virtual photography. With works by Alan Butler, Marie Foulston, Edwin Lo Yun Ting and Chloé Galibert-Laîné. Curated with Vladimir Nadein.

17th Native Spirit Film Festival: Тарыҥ (Season of Dying Water) + Letter from Siberia
2023 | Pushkin House | London, UK
A double bill screening in collaboration with the dedicated to the Sakha, an indigenous people living in Siberia, in particular in the city of Yakutsk. With works by Chris Marker and Svetlana Romanova & Chelsea Tuggle.

Gaming the System
2023 | International Short Film Festival BRNO16 | Brno, Czechia
A short but comprehensive programme on machinima, showcasing how artists playfully subvert digital worlds to tell stories and expose their underlying systems.

Visiting curator showcase: Dmitry Frolov & Machinima
2023 | AV-arkki | Helsinki, Finland
A screening programme showcasing the diverse possibilities of machinima, a filmmaking style using video games or game engines to create real-time animated images. With works by Jamie Janković, Gina Hara, Total Refusal and Sam Crane. Curated with Vladimir Nadein.

Witnessing History: Films by Sergei Loznitsa
2023 | Pushkin House | Cine Lumiere | Bertha DocHouse | The Garden Cinema | London, UK
A comprehensive programme celebrating the multifaceted oeuvre of Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa, including the two UK premieres of his latest films, The Natural History of Destruction and The Kiev Trial.

Theme: Against Gravity. The Art of Machinima
2023 | International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Germany
A curated section of the festival dedicated to moving image works made in video games. Consists of 8 programmes, including one performance, as well as a panel discussion. With works by Total Refusal, Phil Solomon, Jacky Connolly, Brody Condon, Jon Rafman, Alice Bucknell, Sondra Perry, among others. Curated with Vladimir Nadein.

Climate Caravans: The Great Void
2022 | Çatı Gallery | Izmir, Turkey
A screening of Sebastian Mez's film The Great Void as part of the environmental festival.

I Don’t Like the Fact that I’m Mortal
2022 | Illusion Cinema | Moscow, Russia
A film screening dedicated to Russian cosmism as part of the public programme of Anton Vidokle’s exhibition. With works by Anton Vidokle, Masha Godovannaya, Sergei Shutov, Daniil Zinchenko, among others.

Seeing Between the Lines
2022 | AyarKut | Online
An experimental film and video art exhibition built around the concept of (cultural) translation and its visual representation, as well as issues of postcolonial knowledge. Part of the AyarKut Foundation's online programme "Terrestrial Voices" dedicated to exploration of cultures of the indigenous peoples of Siberia. With works by Laure Prouvost, Harun Farocki, Ana Vaz, Sky Hopinka, Larry Achiampong and George Clark.

Centenary of Chris Marker
2021 | Lenfilm | Saint Petersburg, Russia
A large retrospective with an exhibition and an international conference in honour of the centennial anniversary of the classic French filmmaker and artist. Curated with Alexey Artamonov.

Filmeur: Autobiographical Films of Alain Cavalier
2021 | Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Dom Radio | Moscow and Saint Petersburg, Russia
As part of the 1st Moscow International Festival of Archival Film, this mini-retrospective celebrates Alain Cavalier’s 90th birthday and features four films — including a trilogy and a short — that explore the world through a radical autobiographical lens.

Moscow International Experimental Film Festival (MIEFF)

2017-2022 | Multiple venues | Moscow, Saint Petersburg and Krasnodar, Russia

The only festival in Russia that was dedicated entirely to experimental cinema and video art. It included International competition, Russian competition, screenings of avant-garde film classics, audio-visual performances, curatorial strands as well as interdisciplinary educational programmes. It served as an important platform for realising my curatorial practices but ceased to exist after the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine began.


MIEFF Showcase
2021 | Pushkin House | London, UK
A three-day showcase of recent Russian experimental cinema and artists’ moving image, selected and introduced each evening by the festival’s curator Dmitry Frolov in conversation with a Pushkin House curator.

Close Up. Nathaniel Dorsky
2021 | Garage Museum of Contemporary Art | Moscow, Russia
The first screening of films by the prominent American avant-garde filmmaker Nathaniel Dorsky in Russia. Part of the MIEFF programme.

Redoubt by Matthew Barney
2021 | Khudozhestvenny Cinema | Moscow, Russia
The Russian premiere of renowned contemporary artist Matthew Barney's feature film that unfolds as a series of hunts in the wilderness of Idaho’s Sawtooth Mountains. Part of the MIEFF programme.

How Long Is Now
2021 | Multiple venues | Moscow, Russia
A programme of six full-length experimental and documentary films and a panel discussion dedicated to the most pressing issues of our time, such as technological progress, the nature of debt in neoliberal capitalism or the global ecological crises. With works by Carmen Losmann, Theo Anthony, Michael Busch, Tim Leyendekker, among others. Part of the MIEFF programme.

Fireworks
2020 | Multiple venues | Moscow, Russia
A large curatorial programme of film screenings and performances accompanied by a video art exhibition and an introductory lecture by Oleg Aronson. It is based on a metaphorical and conceptual comparison of the medium of moving images with fire and fireworks. With works by Yoko Ono, Jan Dibbets, Cyprien Gaillard, Aura Satz, Annabel Nicolson, Tony Conrad, James Benning, Kenneth Anger, Vika Kirchenbauer, Nick Crowe & Ian Rawlinson, among others. Part of the MIEFF programme.

Panorama Film Festival
2020 | Multiple venues | Moscow and Novosibirsk, Russia
An annual festival invented by the Moscow Cinema and dedicated to the most strange and exciting routes of the cinematic season. Curated with Maxim Selezniov.

Digital Dystopias
2020 | Luch Media Arts Festival | Yeltsin Centre | Yekaterinburg, Russia
A film programme aimed at sending the viewers into a restless space of digital interference and new affective connections produced by the media machines of global capital. With works by Metahaven, Rachel Maclean, Harun Farocki, Maya Schweizer, Rainer Kohlberger, among others.

Echo of Oberhausen
2020 | Moskino | Online
A joint online screening of Moscow Cinema and the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen that included an experimental short film programme and an artist talk with American artist Lynne Sachs.

Between Two Cinemas. American Avant-Garde
2019 | Illusion Cinema | Moscow, Russia
A retrospective of the American avant-garde classic films on 16 mm, constructed around film archivist Ross Lipman’s autobiographical video essay. With works by Maya Deren, Stan Brakhage, Michael Snow, Bruce Baillie, Ross Lipman. Part of the MIEFF programme.

In the Shadow of Forward Motion
2019 | Zabludowicz Collection | London, UK
Curated collectively as part of the Testing Ground for Art and Education platform, this mixed media exhibition with a public programme examined the concept of vulnerability in an age of social and political unrest by presenting artworks predating 2001. With works by Heidi Bucher, Jake & Dinos Chapman, Larry Clark, Mat Collishaw, Michal Rovner, David Wojnarowicz , among others.

Eisenstein. Screen Life: Desktop-performance and Essay Films
2018 | Garage Museum of Contemporary Art | Moscow, Russia
As part of the special programme dedicated to the 120-year anniversary of Sergei Eisenstein, video essayist Kevin B. Lee performed as a desktop-mc and presented essay films about the iconic director's oeuvre by Zoe Beloff and Mark Rappaport. Part of the MIEFF programme.

News from Ideological Antiquity - Marx/Eisenstein/Das Kapital
2018 | Stanislavsky Electrotheatre | Moscow, Russia
A screening and a panel discussion of Alexander Kluge’s ambitious essay film about Sergei Eisenstein's project to create a film adaptation of Karl Marx's Das Kapital. Part of the MIEFF programme.

1st Almanac of Parallel Cinema of the USSR
2018 | Stanislavsky Electrotheatre | Moscow, Russia
A repeat screening of the 1990 festival program, featuring the most representative films of the leading Russian experimental film movement of the Perestroika era. Part of the MIEFF programme.

National Competition at the Beat Film Festival
2018 | Multiple venues | Moscow, Russia
A selection of the films about music, contemporary art, urbanism, street culture, fashion and new technologies by young Russian documentary filmmakers.

Vladimir Kobrin Retrospective
2017 | Stanislavsky Electrotheatre | Moscow, Russia
A two-part 35 mm retrospective of Vladimir Kobrin’s science films, allegorical collages and video art that blend radical formalist experiments with scientific knowledge and the search for eternal truth. Part of the MIEFF programme.