Valeria Prorizna

I'm a Ukrainian filmmaker and visual artist working at the intersection of documentary film, spatial research, and video art. I investigate suppressed spatial narratives and focus on how authoritarian societies shape cultural environments through both construction and destruction. My practice depends on alternative means of film production — collaborative, independent, urgent, and multidisciplinary.

I studied documentary filmmaking at the Institute of Screen Arts in Kyiv. In 2016–2018, I was part of the artist-run Open Library of Fine Arts and a member of the curatorial council of Plivka Art Centre. I have collaborated as producer and casting director with various filmmakers and artists including Andrėja Šaltytė & Leo Tax, Matthias Schoenijahn, Roman Himey & Yarema Malashchuk, Ostap Yashchuk, and others. Since 2020, I have worked as a film programmer at KINOKO film festival. Since 2022, I have also been part of a Ukrainian volunteer group.

I am member of the multidisciplinary group Centre for Spatial Technologies and as creative producer have worked on "City Within a Building" film, "Nebelivka Hypothesis", situated testimonies for the "Mariupol Drama Theatre Spatial Archive" project, and, most recently, "Church, Chora, Chersonese" — a two-screen video installation based on archival research examining how archaeological studies of the Ancient Greek city of Chersonese have served diverse political agendas from the late 1700s up to Russia's present occupation of Crimea. CST's works have been presented at Venice Architecture Biennale, Akademie der Künste Berlin, ETH Zürich, M HKA Antwerp, and others. We were shortlisted for the #IJ4EU Impact Award 2024 and received a Prix Ars Electronica (Digital Communities) Honorary Mention.