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
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
2020 Practical and deliberative experimental educational course on art Positions of the Artist by MethodFund
Films
2025 Eyelashes and Sand Crystals (work in progress, short)
2025 A Long Road Ahead (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
2018 Art Prospect Residency. Baku, Azerbaijan
2020 Landscape As a Monument A-I-R Programme, Ukraine
2024 Ukrainian Ecologies, Kyiv, Ukraine
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
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 Center, Lviv, Ukraine
2024 Heart of Earth exhibition at the Ukrainian House in Copenhagen, Denmark
2024 Earth as a Body exhibition, Meno Parkas Galerija, Kaunas, Lithuania
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
2024 Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2024 Kino Pavasaris Film Festival, Vilnius, Lithuania
2024 Riga International Short Film Festival 2ANNAS, Riga, Latvia
2024 DocAlliance Award nomination
2024 FIDMarseille Film Festival, France
2024 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, Korea2023 Bucharest International Experimental Film, Romania
2023 Reykjavík International Film Festival, Iceland
2023 18th Pravo Ljudski Film Festival, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Hercegovina
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
Eyelashes and Sand Crystals
2025 | work in progress | Ukraine | video installation
2024 work in progress was presented as a video installation at the exhibition in the Naked Room gallery in Kyiv
2025 screening of the excerpts during the Solomiya Studio festival in KVOST, Berlin
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 fascilitator, Viadrinicum summer school, Frankfurt (O.), Germany
Commissioned
2023 director, DOP & editor | the video for the Her Gaze residency for young female artists | Goethe-Institut in Ukraine & NGO Feminist Workshop, Ukraine
2023 videographer & editor | short videos for Voice of America, Lisbon, Portugal
2013–2018 photographer | Politychna Krytyka, Big Idea platform, Kyiv, Ukraine
2016–2018 photographer | Visual Culture Research Center, Kyiv, Ukraine