Collective Session April 2025

Sasha Litivintseva is an artist, filmmaker and writer, based in London. Since 2018, much of her work is produced in the context of the ongoing collaboration with Beny Wagner. 

Her films been screened at film festivals worldwide including at the Berlinale, Rotterdam International Film Festival, CPH:DOX, Cinema Du Reel, RIDM Montreal, Punto De Vista, Festival Du Nouveau Cinema, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Vancouver Film Festival, Open City Docs, Camden International Film Festival, Olhar de Cinema, Vilnius Film Festival and Aesthetica Short Film Festival, among many others.

Her work has been presented at major art institutions including the Tate Modern, the Baltic Triennial, Seoul Mediacity Biennale, Museum of the Moving Image New York, TIVA Taipei, ICA London, CCA Glasgow, FRAC Ile-de-France, Wexner Center for the Arts, Warsaw Museum of Modern Art, Mumok Vienna, Videobrasil and Transmediale, among many others. It has been subject of focus and retrospective screenings at more than fifteen venues worldwide including Courtisane Festival, Union Docs NY, LA Filmforum and e-flux screening room. 

Her films have won numerous awards internationally, including the Sylvestre Award for Best Short Film at IndieLisboa, Best Short Documentary at Guanajuato Film Festival, a Special Mention at CPH:DOX, a Special Mention at EXiS Seoul, Second place at Deutscher Kurzfilmpreis (BAFTA equivalent) and was Longlisted for an Academy Award. Her work has been featured in publications including Cahiers du Cinema, Sight & Sound, Frieze, Senses of Cinema, Filmmaker Magazine, among others. Her films are distributed by Square Eyes and Criterion Channel.

Sasha holds a BA in Fine Art from the Slade School of Art and a PhD in Media, Communications and Cultural Studies from Goldsmiths. She is a senior lecturer in film at Queen Mary University of London and the 2024 winner of he Philip Leverhulme Prize. She is the author of Geological Filmmaking (Open Humanities Press, 2022), and the co-author, with Beny Wagner, of All Thoughts Fly: Monster, Taxonomy, Film (Sonic Acts Press, 2021). Her writing has also appeared in books and journals including e-flux and Environmental Humanities.

https://www.sashalitvintseva.com/

Beny Wagner is an artist, filmmaker, writer and lecturer. Working in moving image, text, installation and lectures, he constructs non-linear narratives that probe the ever shifting threshold of the human body in time. He has explored themes ranging from histories of metabolism, to the social and political histories of measurement standardization, the politics of waste, to histories of monsters in European science. Since 2017, much of his work is produced in the context of his ongoing collaboration with Sasha Litvintseva.

Wagner has presented work in festivals, exhibitions and conferences globally including: Berlinale, International Film Festival Rotterdam, CPH:DOX, Open City Documentary Festival, EXiS Seoul, Courtisane, Tate Modern, Museum of Moving Image New York, Eye Film Museum Amsterdam, Criterion Channel, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Los Angeles Film Forum, Seoul Media City Biennale, Berlin Atonal, Venice Biennale, White Columns among many others. His work has been featured in Artforum, BOMB Magazine, Filmmaker Magazine, Spike Magazine Quarterly, Frieze Magazine, Kaleidoscope Press and Flash Art. His writing has been published in e-flux, Diaphanes, Valiz, among others. His films have won numerous awards including Best Short Film at IndieLisboa and Best Short Documentary at Guanajuato International Film Festival.​

Wagner is a lecturer on Fine Art Critical Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London. He holds a PhD from the Archaeologies of Media and Technology Research Group at Winchester School of Art, Southampton University. He has also lectured at University College London, Queen Mary University London, Gerrit Rietveld Academy Amsterdam, and has been a guest lecturer in film and fine art academies and universities across Europe, UK, USA. Wagner was a researcher at Jan van Eyck Academy. He received his BA from Bard College, New York. 

https://www.benywagner.com/