On March 21, the Close-Up Film Centre in London will host a retrospective screening and artist talk with filmmaker Masha Godovannaya.

The evening’s program features six films created between 2016 and 2024, offering an overview of Godovannaya’s recent work and artistic practice. Following the screenings, audiences will have the opportunity to meet the filmmaker and take part in a discussion. The event begins at 18:00.

“In Masha Godovannaya’s experimental films, intimacy is associated with an activist fervour, while a well-targeted irony at the level of editing and gesture nevertheless affords space to an uncompromising empathy with the small and vulnerable. Masha’s overwhelmingly personal view highlights the structural and political place of sensuous imagery and reveals the absurdity and machismo in the self-representation of political ideologies. Her feminist, queer and decolonial methodology is not just an idea that permeates the filmmaker’s work, but a method that forms the basis for editing heterogeneous materials, from film fragments and found video footage to her own material and the films of other filmmakers that have been reinterpreted through editing. Defragmentation, layering, interspersing and analytically separating images as well as collective collaborative labouring with other artists and queer kinfolks comprises a queer strategy where “decolonizing vision means changing the entire order of things.””– Katerina Beloglazova