ABOUT | ignatenko maria

MARIA IGNATENKO

Filmmaker, Dramaturgist, Film editor, Film Theorist, Educator.

1986 - Born In Moscow

lives in Tbilisi, Georgia

My cinematic works have been selected by international festivals and institutions such as Berlinale, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Venice Horizons Award, Pingyao International Film Festival, Marseille International Film Festival and others.

Since 2013 - Filmmaker, Dramaturgist, Scriptwriter, Film editor of feature films and video art.

SELECTED FILM WORKS, SCREENINGS AND AWARDS

2021 - Achrome, Feature Film, Writer And Director

International Film Festival Rotterdam (2022)

XIX Panorama Internacional Coisa de Cinema, Best feature film (2023)

Listapad Minsk International Film Festival, Best Cinematography (2022)

Patriki Film Festival (Moscow), Grand Prix (2022)

Andrei Tarkovsky International Film Festival (2022)

2019 - In Deep Sleep, Feature Film, Writer And Director

Berlinale (2020)

Kinotavr Sochi (2020)

Pacific Meridian International Film Festival, Best Asian Film (2020)

Trieste Film Festival (2020)

Riga International Film Festival (2020)

2019 - Criminal Man, Feature Film (Dir. Dmitry Mamulia), Co-Writer

Venice Horizons Award (2019)

Pingyao International Film Festival (2019)

Minsk International Film Festival Listapad, Best Script (2019)

Bogazici Film Festival, Best Director (2019)

Thessaloniki International Film Festival (2019)

Lisbon & Sintra Film Festival (2019)

2015 - Yuha, short feature film, writer and director

2morrow/Zavtra International Festival Of Independent Films (Moscow), Russian Workshops And Short Film Weekend Programs (2015)

2013- Glass (Steklo), the series, writer, producer, actress

FILM EDITING. SELECTED WORKS

2021 - Toothless Resistance. The Friendship Tree, video installation (artist Polina Kanis), Film Editor

Solo exhibition at P/////AKT, Amsterdam (2022)

Screenings and group exhibitions at: Tromsø Kunstforening, Norway (2024), Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin (2022), Crawford Art Gallery, Ireland (2022), Whitechapel Gallery, London (2021), Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires (2021), The Contemporary Art Festival Survival Kit, Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art, Riga (2020)

2020 - Toothless Resistance. The Room, video installation (artist Polina Kanis), Film Editor

Des théâtres du silence, Galerie C, Neuchâtel (2020)

Publiek Park, Young Friends v/h S.M.A.K., Ghent (2021)

Film and Audiovisual Art Festival, Rosà (2021)

The Turbulence, CCA Gostiny Dvor, Moscow (2020)

2016 - A Never-Ending Conversation. Mamleev, Documentary Film (Dir. Dmitry Mamulia And Valentina Antonova), Film Editor

The Beat Film Festival, Moscow (2017)

Marseille International Film Festival (2017)

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Since 2018 - Teaches Film Directing At The Moscow School Of New Cinema (MSNC) and The Saint Petersburg School Of New Cinema (PSNC).

Since 2019 - Curator of the Faculty of Film Directing at The Moscow International University (MIU).

THEORETICAL BACKGROUND

Since 2022 - A Phd student in philosophy in the Stasis Center for Practical Philosophy at European University, St. Petersburg, participant of international conferences.

The key topics of academic research: The alienated body through the ontological and epistemological aspects of cinema, Adorno's negative mimesis as a tool of "co-presence" between the viewer and the work, Combining Freudo-Marxist and Phenomenological projects in Alfonso Lingis's "politics of the body", The contemporary face of anarchist cinema.

EDUCATION

2008 - Graduated From Moscow State University With A Degree In Journalism

2016 - Graduated From The Moscow School Of New Cinema (Dmitry Mamuliya’s Workshop) With A Degree In Film Directing

Since 2022 - A Phd student in philosophy in the Stasis Center for Practical Philosophy at European University, St. Petersburg.

2021 - Jury Member, Moscow International Experimental Film Festival (Mieff)

2021 - Jury Member, New Holland International Debut Film Festival, St. Petersburg