Introducing... Oleksiy Radynski

Oleksiy Radynski is a filmmaker and writer based in Kyiv. His films experiment with documentary forms and practices of political cinema. They have been screened at film festivals and in art contexts worldwide, including International Film Festival Rotterdam, Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, the Institute of Contemporary Arts (London), e-flux (New York), Docudays (Kyiv), Sheffield Doc Fest, Krakow IFF, DOK Leipzig etc. His latest film Chornobyl 22 won the Grand Prix at Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen in 2023. His texts have been published in e-flux journal, The Atlantic, and Die Tageszeitung, among others. Currently, his work is focused on investigating the toxic legacies of settler colonialism in North East Eurasia, with a focus on the rise of Russian fossil fascism and its multiple imperial wars, including the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine. He collaborates with The Reckoning Project, a forensic media project aimed at documenting and prosecuting Russian war crimes in Ukraine.

Based on the newly discovered film archives and in collaboration with decolonial scholars and activists, Oleksiy Radynski's research is investigating the "toxic legacies of infrastructural colonization of Siberia in the context of the emergence of Russian fossil fascism and its multiple imperial wars."