Sasha Litvintseva 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.