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Redefining the Rhetoric Collection GBFF2026 "When rhetoric is wrong, it's time to redefine it"
"When rhetoric is wrong, it's time to redefine it"
Ever been told who you are, who you should be, and how you should behave? This collection overturns stereotypes, myths, and expectations to redefine the world we live in.
Who Said There Will Be a Walk in Time (2018)
A visual study which sketches the forms and outlines, the margins of queer kinships lived and practiced by the local queer community of post-socialist Split, Croatia.
Taking kinship as a living experience of mutuality, the film sketches forms and outlines the margins of queer kinships lived and practiced by the local queer community of post-socialist Split.
Director Biography - Masha Godovannaya
Masha Godovannaya is a visual artist, queer-feminist researcher, curator, and educator, born in Moscow, Russia. Masha considers her films and installations audiovisual experiences blending personal, subjective elements with more concrete observations of the external world and social context. Approaching art production as collective action, her artistic practice is closely connected to artistic research and draws on combinations of approaches and spheres such as moving image theory, sociology, feminist studies, queer theory, and contemporary art. At the end of 2015 together with group of artists, activists, and social researches from St. Petersburg, Russia, she co-founded a queer-feminist affinity art group “Unwanted Organisation” (https://faagunwanted.wordpress.com/)
Please tell us your motivation for making your film:
to establish and nourish a queer kinship through filmmaking and a film
What are the themes and central messages you wanted to convey with your submission?:
it's a portrait of the LGBTQ+ community of Split, Croatia
Director Biography - Masha Godovannaya
Director Biography - Masha Godovannaya
Masha Godovannaya (born 1976, Moscow, USSR/Russia) is an experimental filmmaker, queer-feminist researcher, curator, and educator. Approaching art production as artistic research and collective action, Masha’s artistic and scholarly practices draw on combinations of approaches and spheres such as moving image theory, experimental cinema, and DIY video tradition, social science, post-soviet/postsocialists studies, queer theory, and decolonial methodologies.
Masha holds an MFA degree in Film/Video from Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College, USA, an MA degree in Sociology from European University in St. Petersburg, Russia, and a PhD in Practice at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria.
Masha’s films and visual works have been shown at festivals and art venues such as the International Film Festival Rotterdam, International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, BFI London Film Festival, Ann Arbor International Film Festival, European Media Art Festival, Vienna Shorts Film Festival, Engauge Experimental Film Festival, Experiments in Cinema, Manifesta 10, 7th Liverpool Biennial, Tate Modern, Centre Georges Pompidou, The Ludwig Museum at the Russian Museum, and others.
Masha’s works are distributed by Light Cone (Paris), The Collectif Jeune Cinéma (Paris), Filmmakers’ Cooperative (New York), and The CYLAND Video Archive (New York). These works are included in the collections of The State Russian Museum (St. Petersburg), and Österreichisches Filmmuseum (Vienna).
Credits:
Masha Godovannaya
Director
Masha Godovannaya
Writer
Specs:
Project Type:
Documentary, Experimental, Short
Runtime:
42 minutes 3 seconds
Completion Date:
August 20, 2018
Country of Origin:
Austria
Country of Filming:
Croatia
Language:
Croatian, English, Russian
Shooting Format:
Digital
Aspect Ratio:
16:9
Film Color:
Color
First-time Filmmaker:
No
Student Project:
No
Digital Cinema Package:
Unavailable
- Year2020
- Runtime00:42:03
- CountryAustria, Croatia, United States, Russian Federation
- Subtitle LanguageForeign Language Subtitles
- DirectorMasha Godovannaya
Redefining the Rhetoric Collection GBFF2026 "When rhetoric is wrong, it's time to redefine it"
"When rhetoric is wrong, it's time to redefine it"
Ever been told who you are, who you should be, and how you should behave? This collection overturns stereotypes, myths, and expectations to redefine the world we live in.
Who Said There Will Be a Walk in Time (2018)
A visual study which sketches the forms and outlines, the margins of queer kinships lived and practiced by the local queer community of post-socialist Split, Croatia.
Taking kinship as a living experience of mutuality, the film sketches forms and outlines the margins of queer kinships lived and practiced by the local queer community of post-socialist Split.
Director Biography - Masha Godovannaya
Masha Godovannaya is a visual artist, queer-feminist researcher, curator, and educator, born in Moscow, Russia. Masha considers her films and installations audiovisual experiences blending personal, subjective elements with more concrete observations of the external world and social context. Approaching art production as collective action, her artistic practice is closely connected to artistic research and draws on combinations of approaches and spheres such as moving image theory, sociology, feminist studies, queer theory, and contemporary art. At the end of 2015 together with group of artists, activists, and social researches from St. Petersburg, Russia, she co-founded a queer-feminist affinity art group “Unwanted Organisation” (https://faagunwanted.wordpress.com/)
Please tell us your motivation for making your film:
to establish and nourish a queer kinship through filmmaking and a film
What are the themes and central messages you wanted to convey with your submission?:
it's a portrait of the LGBTQ+ community of Split, Croatia
Director Biography - Masha Godovannaya
Director Biography - Masha Godovannaya
Masha Godovannaya (born 1976, Moscow, USSR/Russia) is an experimental filmmaker, queer-feminist researcher, curator, and educator. Approaching art production as artistic research and collective action, Masha’s artistic and scholarly practices draw on combinations of approaches and spheres such as moving image theory, experimental cinema, and DIY video tradition, social science, post-soviet/postsocialists studies, queer theory, and decolonial methodologies.
Masha holds an MFA degree in Film/Video from Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College, USA, an MA degree in Sociology from European University in St. Petersburg, Russia, and a PhD in Practice at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria.
Masha’s films and visual works have been shown at festivals and art venues such as the International Film Festival Rotterdam, International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, BFI London Film Festival, Ann Arbor International Film Festival, European Media Art Festival, Vienna Shorts Film Festival, Engauge Experimental Film Festival, Experiments in Cinema, Manifesta 10, 7th Liverpool Biennial, Tate Modern, Centre Georges Pompidou, The Ludwig Museum at the Russian Museum, and others.
Masha’s works are distributed by Light Cone (Paris), The Collectif Jeune Cinéma (Paris), Filmmakers’ Cooperative (New York), and The CYLAND Video Archive (New York). These works are included in the collections of The State Russian Museum (St. Petersburg), and Österreichisches Filmmuseum (Vienna).
Credits:
Masha Godovannaya
Director
Masha Godovannaya
Writer
Specs:
Project Type:
Documentary, Experimental, Short
Runtime:
42 minutes 3 seconds
Completion Date:
August 20, 2018
Country of Origin:
Austria
Country of Filming:
Croatia
Language:
Croatian, English, Russian
Shooting Format:
Digital
Aspect Ratio:
16:9
Film Color:
Color
First-time Filmmaker:
No
Student Project:
No
Digital Cinema Package:
Unavailable
- Year2020
- Runtime00:42:03
- CountryAustria, Croatia, United States, Russian Federation
- Subtitle LanguageForeign Language Subtitles
- DirectorMasha Godovannaya
