Barlinale: Healing Screens2025 | Tennis Bar | Berlin
An independent counter film festival with a focus on non-conventional and non-fiction cinema taking place in a bar. Healing Screens explores the potential of moving images to support well-being.
e-flux Film Award2023-2025 | e-flux | New York
An annual prize recognizing artists' films that redefine the aesthetic and critical potential of moving images, with winning and nominated films screened at the e-flux Screening Room in New York.
Machinima: Gamepad Filmmaking2024 | Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival
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, Aneksandar Radan, among others. Curated with Vladimir Nadein.
Glitch Film: The Art of Error2024 | MAMA Zagreb | DKSG Belgrade
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 Gameplay2024 | Minimalen Short Film Festival | Trondheim
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 Focus2024 | Fotografiska Berlin
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 Siberia2023 | Pushkin House | London
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 System2023 | International Short Film Festival BRNO16 | Brno
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 & Machinima2023 | AV-arkki | Helsinki
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 Loznitsa2023 | Pushkin House | London
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 Machinima2023 | International Short Film Festival Oberhausen
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 Void2022 | Çatı Gallery | Izmir
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 Mortal2022 | Illusion Cinema | Moscow
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 Lines2022 | 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.
International Competition at the 19th Spirit of Fire International Debut Film Festival2022 | Multiple venues | Khanty-Mansiysk
Centenary of Chris Marker2021 | Lenfilm | Saint Petersburg
A large retrospective with an exhibition and an international conference in honour of the centennial anniversary of the classic French filmmaker and artist.
Filmeur: Autobiographical Films of Alain Cavalier2021 | Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Dom Radio | Moscow, Saint Petersburg
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, Krasnodar 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. |
2021 | Pushkin House | London
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 Dorsky2021 | Garage Museum of Contemporary Art | Moscow
The first screening of films by the prominent American avant-garde filmmaker Nathaniel Dorsky in Russia. Part of the MIEFF programme.
Redoubt by Matthew Barney2021 | Khudozhestvenny Cinema | Moscow
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 Now2021 | Multiple venues | Moscow
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 orthe global ecological crises. With works by Carmen Losmann, Theo Anthony, Michael Busch, Tim Leyendekker, among others. Part of the MIEFF programme.
Fireworks2020 | Multiple venues | Moscow
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, Annabele Nicolson, Tony Conrad, James Benning, Kenneth Anger, Vika Kirchenbauer, Nick Crowe & Ian Rawlinson, among others. Part of the MIEFF programme.
Panorama Film Festival2020 | Multiple venues | Moscow, Novosibirsk
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 Dystopias2020 | Luch Media Arts Festival | Yeltsin Centre | Yekaterinburg
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 Oberhausen2020 | 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 Lynn Sachs.
Between Two Cinemas. American Avant-Garde2019 | Illusion Cinema | Moscow
A retrospective of the American avant-garde classic films on 16 mm, constructed around film archivist Ross Lipman’s autobiographical video essay. Works by Maya Deren, Stan Brakhage, Michael Snow, Bruce Baillie, Ross Lipman. Part of the MIEFF programme.
Eisenstein. Screen Life: Desktop-performance and Essay Films2018 | Garage Museum of Contemporary Art | Moscow
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 Kapital2018. Stanislavsky Electrotheatre. Moscow
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 USSR2018 | Stanislavsky Electrotheatre | Moscow
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 Festival2018 | Multiple venues | Moscow
A selection of the films about music, contemporary art, urbanism, street culture, fashion and new technologies by young Russian documentary filmmakers.
Vladimir Kobrin Retrospective2017 | Stanislavsky Electrotheatre | Moscow
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.
