Oleksiy Radynski

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Oleksiy Radynski is a filmmaker and writer based in Kyiv.

He was born in 1984 and raised in the ruins of a Documentary Film Studio in Kyiv. After studying film theory at Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, he took part in several film education experiments 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 the International Film Festival Rotterdam, the Oberhausen International Short Film Festival, DOK Leipzig, Kurzfilmtage Winterthur and other festivals, and received awards at Docudays UA, Molodist IFF, and the Kyiv International Short Film Festival. Selected filmography: Where Russia Ends (2024), Chornobyl 22 (2023), Infinity According to Florian (2022), Circulation (2020), Facade Colour: Blue (2019), The Film of Kyiv. Episode One (2017), Landslide (2016), People Who Came to Power (2015), Integration (2014), Incident at the Museum (2013).

His texts has been published in the anthologies Art and Theory of Post-1989 Central and East Europe: A Critical Anthology (2018), Being Together Precedes Being (2018), Proxy Politics: Power and Subversion in a Networked Age (2017), Sweet Sixties: Spirits and Specters of a Parallel Avant-Garde (2014), Post-Post-Soviet?: Art, Politics, and Society in Russia at the Turn of Decade (2013), Soviet Modernism 1955-1991: Unknown Stories (2012), and in e-flux journal, Political Critique, Regarding Spectatorship, colta.ru and other publications.

In 2008, he co-founded Visual Culture Research Center. He was a 2019-2020 BAK Fellow at basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht.

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