CV

Daryna Mamaisur

filmmaker and visual artist

Education

2008-2012 Publishing at National Technical University of Ukraine Kyiv Polytechnic Institute
2012-2014 Philosophy at National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
2021-2022 Documentary filmmaking. The DocNomads Joint Master Programme (Brussels / Lisbon / Budapest)

Workshops | Educational Programmes

2014-2015 Workshop of Cultural critique and reportage Culture 3.0. Foundation CCA. Kyiv, Ukraine
2015 MyStreetFilms Laboratory. Festival of Film and Urbanism “86”. Slavutych, Ukraine
2018 Living Monuments: Commemorative Spaces Between Removal and Re-invention, Kharkiv, Uzhhorod, Berlin, Dessau
2019 The Plant Gave Us Everything. Donbas Studies Summer School
2019 Ji.hlava Academy, Czech Republic
2020 Practical and deliberative experimental educational course on art Positions of the Artist by MethodFund

Films

2026 Eyelashes and Sand Crystals (work in progress, short)
2023 Smoke of the Fire | 22’, Portugal, Ukraine
2022 I Stumble Every Time I Hear From Kyiv | 17’ | Belgium, Ukraine
2021 Sometimes It’s Cool, Sometimes It’s Not | 12’ | Portugal
2021 It Does Not Sting | 12’ | Hungary
2021 movements around a familiar dream (co-directed w/ Shaheen Ahmed) | 6’ | Hungary
2020 a steppe with rabbits and pheasants running around, and where some even saw foxes. part 2 | 10’ | Ukraine
2019 some observations on the moments of solitude | 2’ 15’’ | Ukraine
2015 Revenge Comes First | 12’ | Ukraine

Residencies & Fellowships

2018 Art Prospect Residency. Baku, Azerbaijan
2020 Landscape As a Monument A-I-R Programme, Ukraine
2024 Ukrainian Ecologies, Kyiv, Ukraine
2026 Fellowship at European New School of Digital Studies, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany

Festivals & Screenings

a steppe with rabbits and pheasants running around, and where some even saw foxes. part 2
10’ | 2020 | Ukraine | video

2023 Heart of Earth exhibition at Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine
2023 Peilung #4. This World Is Recording at DAAD Galerie, Berlin, Germany
2023 In Dreams and Awake film screening, London, UK
2023 Triangle and a straight line exhibition, Neotodryosh Gallery & Lviv Municipal Art Centre, Lviv, Ukraine
2024 Heart of Earth exhibition at the Ukrainian House in Copenhagen, Denmark
2023 Earth as a Body exhibition, Meno Parkas Galerija, Kaunas, Lithuania
2023 Environmental Humanities Laboratory, Index Institute, Ukraine

I Stumble Every Time I Hear From Kyiv
17’ 17’’ | 2022 | Ukraine, Belgium | hybrid documentary

2023 Visions du Réel, Nyon, Switzerland
2023 Docudays UA IHRDFF, Kyiv, Ukraine (Andriy Matrosov Award)
2023 Her Docs Festival, Warsaw, Poland
2023 4:3 Ivano-Frankivsk International Short Film Festival, Ukraine
2023 Molodist Kyiv International Film Festival, Ukraine
2023 Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Paris, France
2023 Ukrainian Film Festival in Berlin, Germany
2023 Kassel Dokfest, Germany
2023 Kyiv International Short Film Festival, Ukraine
2024 Screening at Camera Commune, New Delhi, India
2023 Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2023 Kino Pavasaris Film Festival, Vilnius, Lithuania
2023 Riga International Short Film Festival 2ANNAS, Riga, Latvia
2023 DocAlliance Award nomination
2023 FIDMarseille Film Festival, France
2023 DOKLeipzig Film Festival, Germany

Smoke of the Fire
21’ 37’’ | 2023 | Portugal, Ukraine | essay film

2023 FIDMarseille Film Festival, France
2023 DMZ International Documentary Film Festival, Korea
2023 Bucharest International Experimental Film, Romania
2023 Reykjavík International Film Festival, Iceland
2023 18th Pravo Ljudski Film Festival, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
2023 DOKLeipzig, Germany
2023 Festival dei Popoli, Florence, Italy
2023 Montreal International Documentary Festival RIDM, Canada
2024 Doc Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal (Best Short Film & Best Editing Awards)
2024 E-flux Award Shortlist, e-flux screening room, New York, USA
2024 Visions du Réel, Nyon, Switzerland
2024 Collective Dreaming screening, CCA Glasgow
2024 DocAlliance Award nomination
2024 Fronteras inútiles. Estancias de la memoria en el cine auto-referencial, Madrid, Spain
2024 Ji.hlava film festival, Czech Republic
2026 Taking Root exhibition, Färgfabriken, Stockholm, Sweden
2026 Healing Borders, Pianofabriek, Brussels, Belgium

Eyelashes and Sand Crystals
2026 | work in progress | Ukraine | video installation

2024 Ukrainian Ecologies, Naked Room gallery, Kyiv
2025 screening of the excerpts during the Solomiya Studio festival in KVOST, Berlin
2025 BWA Wrocław Gallery, the Voices from Ukraine. Landscapes exhibition
2025 TICK TACK gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
2026 Muhi 2026, Promprylad Art Centre, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine

Teaching Experience

2024 Towards Other Ways of Seeing, the residential workshop on proximity, poetic language and non-linear narratives in cinema, Kerala, India | co-curated w/ Shaheen Ahmed
2024 DocLab facilitator, Viadrinicum summer school, Frankfurt (O.), Germany
2025 Course mentor. Elemental Warfare. From Colonial Legacies to Decolonial Resistance & Solidarity. Invisible University for Ukraine, CEU, Austria & Hungary
2025 Course mentor. Ukraine’s Environment: From Imperial Frontiers to Ecocidal War. Invisible University for Ukraine, CEU, Austria & Hungary

Publications

2018 Developing Human Capital, Building a Better Future, photo zine | Baku, Azerbaijan
2019 a steppe with rabbits and pheasants running around, and where some even saw foxes, photo series | Creating Ruin
2019 Sugar Sweet, zine from the found objects
2022 a steppe with rabbits and pheasants running around, and where some even saw foxes. Part 2 | Kajet journal
2025 The Environmental Issue | Solomiya magazine

Commissioned

2023 director, DOP & editor | the video for the Her Gaze residency for young female artists | Goethe-Institut in Ukraine & NGO Feminist Workshop, Ukraine
2013–2018 photographer | Politychna Krytyka, Big Idea platform, Kyiv, Ukraine
2016–2018 photographer | Visual Culture Research Centre, Kyiv, Ukraine