Kristina is an independent filmmaker and a visual artist with a background in choreography and performance, Russian (Siberian) origin and based in Amsterdam.
Her artistic practice contains work with physical memory, body language and personal archives/memories. Kristina explores different ways, forms and formats of storytelling through the body and movement. She experiments with text, choreography and documentary aspects of cinema.
There is a language of choreography and a text-based language and the language of cinema contains both of them:
I’m curious to research how I can drift between these components within my artistic practice, flowing from one to the other and back; by moving from cinematography to choreography, by including a text into both of them, by combining all of them at once etc. Our lives are often stranger than any scriptwriter can come up with. This belief explains my obsession with the world of documentary cinema. And in cinema as an art form, I respect honesty, simplicity, minimalism and unpredictability. Admiring the works of Krzysztof Kieślowski and Pina Bausch, I’m always looking for invisible and subconscious connections between the screen/stage and the viewer. I try to discover what chemistry can happen on the screen or stage which will make the viewer feel reflected, what triggers this mirroring process, what tools can be used in order to touch the spectator’s inner world?