Masha Godovannaya

An idiosyncratic personal reflection on a mythical image of masculinity in cinema and the clash between cinematic representation and real life....

The film is conceived as a free cinematic improvisation vaguely based on the myth of the Phoenix.

This film is the record of a traumatic reaction to the terrorist acts in the Moscow subway of March 29, 2010.

The film is based on a text by an art historian Koivo on how architectural elements of the past find themselves in mundane structures of our...

This film is based on Holes and Bone, two poems by American poet, lesbian and cult figure of the New York poetry scene Eileen Myles. The film is an...

The iconic depiction of Joan of Arc in Carl Theodor Dreyer’s film. Joan, destined to become a symbol of faith, patriotism and self-sacrifice....

A young girl’s fiery dance, accidentally caught on 16 mm film in the street. The viewer is confronted by the sacrificial and the passionate,...

This film is an exploration of unseen but intensely felt encounters: dreams. The fear – maternal fear – of loss, of separation from a...

A letter from the dead dog Laika, the first conqueror of space. This is the story of her heroic deeds and martyrdom, a document of one of many lives...

A record of the lockdown spring of 2020, shot from the window of the director’s rented apartment in Vienna. Diary entries help to stave off the...

Landscapes from Murnau’s Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (1922) are accompanied by reflections on the ghosts of political struggles of the...

The original film was shot in 2001 and its description sounded like: «It could be an ordinary trip on the Staten Island ferry. But shot with...

A found-footage film that exhilarates via virtuosic editing, this homage to early Soviet-era cinema pioneer Sergei Eisenstein reconfigures extracts...

While walking around my Brooklyn neighborhood, I noticed these children joyfully playing in the spring sunshine. By chance I had my 16mm camera with...

This film is a personal dedication to New York, “a city symphony” to the place which means so much to me…

On April 14, 2014 Vladimir Zhirinovsky, a right-wing politician, publicly attacked two female journalists simply because one of them asked about the...

As if in response to Susan Suleiman’s aphorism on motherhood “Mothers don’t write, they are written” and Julia...

On March 18, 2014 President Putin gave a speech to both chambers of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation. He declared the Crimea as a part...

A visual study which sketches the forms and outlines, the margins of queer kinships lived and practiced by the local queer community of...

Nearly all of us have shot home movies: on film, on video tape, or using the digital cameras built in to our mobile phones. We have filmed our...

The horizons of trembling film landscapes, captured on expired Soviet film, long out of production, developed by hand, break through the closed...

While walking along Nevskiy Prospect in St. Petersburg, Russia, I saw a young girl dancing this harsh, passionate and seductive dance.

It is my endeavor to stop time for a moment and to look through a different prism at things which have been around us for so long, forgotten and...

A young girl’s fiery dance, accidentally caught on 16 mm film in the street. The viewer is confronted by the sacrificial and the passionate,...

A young girl’s fiery dance, accidentally caught on 16 mm film in the street. The viewer is confronted by the sacrificial and the passionate,...

A young girl’s fiery dance, accidentally caught on 16 mm film in the street. The viewer is confronted by the sacrificial and the passionate,...

The film contains traces of the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian war. “An articulation of what is unexplainable but felt. Touching what touches us and...

It could be an ordinary trip on the Staten Island ferry. But shot with single frames, with a few colors added and with just 30 seconds of running...

“MUZHCHINI”, when pronounced by emphasizing every letter, means “mature men” in Russian. It is a catchphrase of Yevgeniy...

Light and Darkness of New York metro.

"This video is dedicated to Peterhof, the suburb of St. Petersburg where I used to live"

It was during one of our usual visits to this famous bar, or “Library” as we often call it. Jonas Mekas, Julius Ziz, August Varkalis,...

For a long time Saint Patrick has been touted as the redemptor of Pagan Ireland: the man who rid the country of its snake population. We felt it was...

A feature-length experimental documentary that captures traces of queer existence and intimate arrangements lived by non-privileged queers who...

This film is a pure fascination with a filmic quality of the image captured on 16mm expired stock, hand-developed while neglecting rules of color...

Do you believe in ghosts? An incantation becomes a refrain in this two-channel projection of sequences from an old film, recaptured on a Lomo lens....

The film departs from Carl T. Dreyer's La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc (1928), Sergej Eisenstein's Battleship "Potemkin" (1925), October (1928), and the...

A film representing a stroll through St. Petersburg. Captured by a broken frame composition, deserted streets, frozen city infrastructure, stone...

A film representing a stroll through St. Petersburg. Captured by a broken frame composition, deserted streets, frozen city infrastructure, stone...

A film representing a stroll through St. Petersburg. Captured by a broken frame composition, deserted streets, frozen city infrastructure, stone...

A film representing a stroll through St. Petersburg. Captured by a broken frame composition, deserted streets, frozen city infrastructure, stone...