Alina Ozerova
Alina Ozerova is an emerging visual artist and filmmaker, originating from Moscow (1983) and based in Amsterdam. Having previous education in sociology Alina found herself sourcing from both social sciences' approaches and arts. Her recent education includes audiovisual department at Gerrit Rietveld Academie (Amsterdam, The Netherlands), and Film Major exchange program in San Francisco Art Institute, USA.
Alina has an ambition to create visual works that study human body in its physical, cognitive, sensory and historic aspects. Genres and styles she’s working with include experimental documentary, video art and audiovisual performances.
The past visual works of the artist were screened at several film and video art festivals and exhibitions around Europe (The Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Slovenia), and 'Semiotics of Aliveness' was honoured with the first prize at DigitalBigScreen 2013, International Video Art Festival (Slovenia).
Films
- Half-Running Hand7' 07''
Half-Running HandProduction: 2013
The video work sources its inspiration from research on Russian culture in its historic and contemporary perspective.A contemporary view on the fierce relation between language and body is translated through the montage of body representations and manipulations on it with custom made tools that are designed in the shapes of ancient Cyrillic letter, excluded from contemporary alphabet. Imaginary artifacts that cut through and tear apart the human matter in its bodily presence.
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- My Family Archive1' 15''
My Family ArchiveProduction: 2012
Rethinking the past - mixing up and blanking out - happens both to individuals and states. How much fake the story should be to become credible?This micro mockumentary uses a combination of pictures & drawings from the family archive dating to 1940-1950s and found footage related to WW2. Revealing a very personal research on the features of Soviet Era through the minor details - like homogenous haircuts or way that head scarfs are used - the scary routs of social dissolving.
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- One Minute of Casa Viva1' 05''
One Minute of Casa VivaProduction: 2013
An audiovisual essay on an underground cultural center in Porto. In the making of the work the real interiors, signs and spaces are re-mixed into a fictional one-minute story of alive house, secured from the life outside of its walls.
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