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Masha Godovannaya, experimental filmmaker and curator
Born in Moscow in 1976, she studied music, book editing and publishing in Russia before majoring in film production at Brooklyn College in New York.
She worked at Anthology Film Archives as a researcher and film/video curator for several years and completed a number of films which have been screened at many American and international film festivals.
Her curatorial projects have been presented at different venues such as Centro Cultural Banco do Brazil, Yale University, Robert Beck Memorial Cinema, Moscow International Film Festival, Cinematexas Film Festival and many others.
She now lives in St. Petersburg, Russia where she continues her film-making and curatorial work. She is currently teaching film and video courses at Smolniy College of Liberal Arts and Science.
Selected Filmography:
(2008) Along With The Phoenix (2007) Objects In Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear (2006) Gnawed Vanity (2005) Another Place & Yet The Same - Untitled #1 (2003) Drops on Marble (2002) MUZHCHINI (2001) The First Round Dance - A Few Drunkards At The Mars Bar - Musicians and A Beggar - Magic Ferry (2000) You Can’t Keep A Good Snake Down (1999) Blind Date - New York Underground
Selected Exhibitions/Screenings:
2008
Onion City Film Festival, Chicago, USA
Beyond Stereotypes, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, Germany
Director’s Lounge, Berlin, Germany
37th International Film Festival Rotterdam, the Netherlands
2007
L'Alternativa 2007 14th Barcelona Independent Film Festival, Spain
Avanto Film Festival, Helsinki, Finland
36th International Film Festival Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Bodrum Film Festival, Bodrum Turkey
Asia Europe Mediations, Poznan, Poland
53rd International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Germany
RESOLUTION / DISSOLUTION III – De-Limitation, Berlin, Germany
IndieLisboa 2007: 4th Festival of independent cinema, Lisbon, Portugal
Kunst Inm Kontext, Plueschow, Germany
2006
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
L'Alternativa 2006 13th Barcelona Independent Film Festival, Spain
Asolo International Film Festival, Asolo, Italy
13th Chicago Underground Film Festival, Chicago, USA
Reel Venus Film Festival, New York, USA
VIDEOEX Experimental Film & Video Festival, Zurich, Switzerland
The BAC 40th International Film and Video Festival, Brooklyn, USA
Director’s Lounge, Berlin, Germany
Evolution Film Festival, Leed, England
Anthology Film Archives, New York, USA
Iowa City International Documentary Film Festival, Iowa, USA
Aarhus Festival of Independent Arts, Aarhus Denmark
2005
La Rencontre Des Labos, Brussels, Belgium
WASH_fall 2005, St. Petersburg, Russia
“The Autumn #1”, “The Autumn #2”, St. Petersburg, Russia
5th Independent Film Show, Naples, Italy
Galleria Pasifae, Rome, Italy
Teatro Francy Carrara, Rome, Italy
RecIt, Indonesia
FilmCartel Movie Night at Glasshouse, Brooklyn, USA
2004
4th Independent Film Show, Naples, Italy
38th Brooklyn Art Council Film Festival, New York, USA
Goliath Art Center, New York, USA
2003
Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Wasser-Stadt, video-installation, Literaturhaus, Berlin, Germany
Paris Cinema the Collectif Jeune Cinema, Paris, France
Glaway Film Festival, Galway, Ireland
EABOF Film Festival, Latino Community Center, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Museo de Arte y Diseсo Contemporбneo, Costa Rica
Rabotniki, photo-exhibition w/Moira Tierney, Courthouse Gallery, New York, USA
Intermittent Location, Museu do Chiado-Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporanea, Lisbon, Portugal
Art-Action: Rencontres Internationales Paris-Berlin, France-Germany
Anthology Film Archives, New York, USA
2002
The State University of Art History, St. Petersburg, Russia
BMP Film Festival, New York, USA
46th London Film Festival, England
Fresh Films at Anthology Film Archives, New York, USA
Cinematexas Film Festival, Austin, TX, USA
2001
Unleashed from the East, Mini-Cine, Shreveport, LA, USA
Ocularis Film Center, New York, USA
Robert Beck Memorial Cinema, New York, USA
20th Uppsala International Short Film Festival, Sweden
8th Chicago Underground Film Festival, IL, USA
Warsaw Center For Contemporary Art, Poland
45th London Film Festival, England
8th New York Underground Film Festival, USA
2000
Avant-Garde Alternatives, Museum Of Cinema & VGIK, Moscow, «Spartak» movie-theatre, St. Petersburg, Dom Kino, Yekaterinburg, Russia
Cinematexas Film Festival, Austin, TX, USA
1999
Elaine Benson Gallery, Montak, NY, USA
Brooklyn College Conservatory Of Music, New York, USA
Selected Curatorial Projects:
2007
Field of Glass: a program of Russian experimental film and video, Avanto Film Festival, Helsinki, Finland
Next Horizon: a program of Russian experimental film and video, “Now is the Winter” symposium, Ithaca, USA
Tired Snow revised: four programs of Russian experimental film, video and animation, “Rodina” movie theater, St. Petersburg, Russia
2006
…An Eye-witness…, a program of experimental film, video and animation, SKIF10,
St. Petersburg, Russia
2005
Tired Snow (vol. III): a program of recent Russian film, video and animation, E-M Arts
/Fondazione Morra, Naples, Italy, “The Autumn #2”, St. Petersburg, Russia
Tired Snow (vol. III bis): a program of recent Russian film, video and animation,
“The Autumn #2”, St. Petersburg, Russia
Continuation of the Autumn, WASH_fall 2005, St. Petersburg, Russia
2004
New Morning, E-M Arts/Fondazione Morra, Naples, Italy
2003
Experimental Russian Films & Animation (11 programs), Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Sao Paulo, Brazil
St. Petersburg Radicals: 1980-2002, Yale University
2002
Yevgenii Yufit and St. Petersburg Radicals of 80s-90s, Amsterdam Film Center
2001
Continuum... (the program of Recent American Videos), Media Forum of the XXIII Moscow Int. Film Festival, Russia; Transit_by.01 Film Festival, Minsk, Belarussia; “Kinoobservatoria”, St. Petersburg, Russia
The Flow of Energy: Contemporary American Film and Video, 2nd Moscow Int. Youth Film Forum «Debut-Kinotavr», Russia; Transit_by.01 Film Festival, Minsk, Belarussia; The State University of Art History, St. Petersburg, Russia
Russian Necrorealist Cinema: The Films of Yevgeniy Yufit, Russian Film Symposium, Pittsburgh, PA
YevgeniyYufit: Small Retrospective, Anthology Film Archives, New York; OuterLimits Film Festival, New York
Experimental Russian Film and Video (Vol. II), Anthology Film Archives, New York; University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA; Balagan Film Center, Boston, MA
New Voices of 90s: American Experimental Films, Anthology Film Archives, New York
2000
Urbi Et Orbi: A Program of New American Videos, Museum of S. Freud, St. Petersburg, Russia; St. Petersburg University of Culture, St. Petersburg, Russia
Avant-Garde Alternatives: An Evolution of American Experimental Film, Museum of Cinema & VGIK, Moscow, Movie theatre "Spartak", St. Petersburg, House of Cinema, Yekaterinburg, Russia
Necrorealism: Yufit and... , Anthology Film Archives, New York; Robert Beck Memorial Cinema, New York
1999
Russians are coming...: Recent Russian Experimental Films (Vol.I), Anthology Film Archives, NY; University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA; Cinematexas Film Festival, Austin, TX; Russian Film Symposium, Pittsburgh, PA; NY Film Festival of Russian Film
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