Rethinking Support: Challenges and Opportunities for Artistic Film Production and Distribution2025 | Courtisane Festival | Flanders Art Institute | Ghent
Public conversation with international guests and the wider audiovisual arts community in Belgium dedicated to the changing role of film festivals and institutions in supporting artists' films, and the challenges facing artistic film production and distribution.
Pixels in Focus2024 | Fotografiska Berlin
Talk with media researcher Thomas Spies, a professor at the University of Cologne and Macromedia University and a practitioner of virtual photography.
Vladimir Nadein and Dmitry Frolov in conversation with Andrea Gatopoulos2023 | Online
Conversation as part of the planned festival screening
Chronicles of the Algorithmic Age (which ultimately did not take place), primarily focused on Andrea Gatopoulos’s short film
Happy New Year, Jim.
Between Cinema and Video Games - Exploring the Elusive Medium of Machinima 2023 | International Short Film Festival Oberhausen
Panel discussion that brought together artists and scholars to explore machinima as an evolving, interdisciplinary art form at the intersection of gaming and cinema, tracing its origins, challenges, and cultural significance in today's media landscape. Participants included artist and writer Alice Bucknell, researcher and curator Gemma Fantacci, experimental filmmaker and media artist Ip Yuk-Yiu, and Professor of Digital Culture Tracy Harwood.
Chris Marker: Reflections in the Mirror of Russian-Soviet Culture2021 | Lenfilm | Saint Petersburg
International academic conference dedicated to the special place Soviet Russia occupied in the cinema of the renowned French filmmaker. It featured presentations by Christian Feigelson, Thomas Tode, Vincent Jacques, Evgenia Zvonkina, Alexander Biryukov, Olga Davydova, Alexandra Bokhancha, and Nikolai Izvolov.
How Long is Now2021 | DK Rassvet | Moscow
Panel discussion that brought together researchers Daniil Aronson, Maxim Miroshnichenko, and Ekaterina Nikitina to discuss the themes and issues presented in the film programme of the same name, exploring key challenges of the 21st century.
Lynne Sachs & Dmitry Frolov in Conversation on 'A Month of Single Frames'2020 | Moskino | Online
Public talk as part of the joint programme of Moskino and the International Short Film Festival in Oberhausen, after the screening of the winner of the Grand Prix
A Month of Single Frames by Lynne Sachs.
Feasibility Report for Moving Image2020 | Onassis Foundation | Online
Conversation held as part of Vasilis Bourikas's research project on the international dynamics of the moving image field.
'Capital' — A Public Discussion2018 | Stanislavsky Electrotheatre | Moscow
Panel discussion of the cinematic representations of Marx's Capital with Oksana Bulgakowa and Ilya Budraitskis, after the screening of an 83-minute version of Alexander Kluge's film essay
News from Ideological Antiquity: Marx – Eisenstein – Capital. 