anastasia mamontenko
12 january - 25 january 2020
anastasia mamontenko, pale people of corruption, 2019, video projection. courtesy of the artist and dallas contemporary.
Emerging filmmaker Anastasia Mamontenko has been exploring the history of film making in her native Ukraine and has incorporated those narratives into her own work for the past three years. Deconstructing Soviet cinema from a philosophical perspective, Mamontenko incorporates personal interests in the power half-truths and unknowns in society today. The screenings of her most recent 2019 films - Pale People of Corruption, Bloody People of War, and Rizdvo - mirror current experimental short film making in Europe today. Based in Odessa and London, Mamontenko studied at the Odessa National University, New York Film academy, and London College of Communication. In 2019, she received the RAGFF Film Festival award for best surreal film in Venice, Italy.