Oleksiy Radynski
Oleksiy Radynski is a filmmaker and writer based in Kyiv. His films experiment with documentary forms and practices of political cinema. After studying film theory at Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, he took part in several experiments in film education including Home Workspace Program (Ashkal Alwan, Beirut) and Labor in a Single Shot by Harun Farocki and Antje Ehmann. His films have been screened at International Film Festival Rotterdam, Oberhausen International Short Film Festival, Krakow IFF, Sheffield Doc Fest, Docudays IFF, DOK Leipzig, Taipei Biennial, the Institute of Contemporary Arts (London) and e-flux (New York) among others. His films had received multiple awards including the Grand Prix of Oberhausen International Short Film Festival for Chornobyl 22 (2023).
As an essayist, Radynski contributed to a number of publications including Proxy Politics: Power and Subversion in a Networked Age (Archive Books, 2017), Art and Theory of Post-1989 Central and East Europe: A Critical Anthology (MoMA, 2018), Being Together Precedes Being (Archive Books, 2019) and e-flux journal. In 2008, he co-founded Visual Culture Research Center, an initiative for art, knowledge and politics in Kyiv. He was a 2019-2020 BAK Fellow at basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht. Currently, his work is focused on investigating the toxic legacies of settler colonialism in Northern Eurasia, with a focus on Russian fossil fascism and its multiple imperial wars, including the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine. He collaborates with The Reckoning Project, a forensic media project aimed at documenting and investigating Russian war crimes in Ukraine.
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