Yana Osman and Anton Khamchishkin (Afghanistan, Russia) work with various media including video, sound, performance and literature. Their artistic practice focuses on researching, how personal, social and political documentary contexts became an entry point to the fantasy worlds we live in. Their works have been screened and exhibited at festivals, in museums and various contemporary art spaces in France, Germany, Netherlands, Italy, Finland, Ireland, Russia, USA, China, Hong Kong, India and even in Antarctica.
Festivals / Exhibitions / Labs / Awards
2024
2023
2022
2021
2024
Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Special screening of video works (Paris, France)
Marché du Film – Festival de Cannes (Cannes, France)
Cité internationale des arts, CNC, Usage du Monde, Residency program for artists, winners (Paris, France)
IFF Galway Film Fleadh, Official Selection (Galway, Ireland)
Bergamo Film Meetings, Official Selection (Bergamo, Italy)
Antarctic Film Festival, Official Selection (Queen Maud Land, Antarctica)
Dom Radio – musicAeterna, Group Exhibition (Saint Petersburg, Russia)
GES-2, Solo show (Moscow, Russia)
2023
Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, in partnership with Centre Pompidou, the Jeu de Paume, the MEP – Maison
Européenne de la Photographie, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Group Exhibition (Paris, France – Berlin, Germany)
WaveOdyssey Tempelhof (Berlin, Germany)
İzmir Short Film Festival, Official Selection (Izmir, Turkey)
Dump Gallery, Artist Talk and Solo Show (Almaty, Kazakhstan)
LetsDoc Lab – IFF Flahertiana (Perm, Russia)
Rendez-vous Industry – Festival de Cannes (Cannes, France)
East West Talent Lab – goEast Film Festival, Nominated project (Wiesbaden, Germany)
GES-2, Grant Program for Artists, winners (Moscow, Russia)
Hong Kong International Film Festival, Official Selection (Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Movies that Matter festival, Official Selection (Hague, Netherlands)
IFF Artdocfest Pitching, Winners (Riga, Latvia)
Clermont-Ferrand Shortfilm Market 2023 (Clermont-Ferrand, France)
Tampere Film Festival, Official Selection, a nominee for European Film Awards (Tampere, Finland)
Shanghai International Short Film Week, Official Selection (Shanghai, China)
2022
Werkleitz biennale (Werkleitz, Germany)
Kinokrokodil East Europe Film Week (Berlin, Germany)
DOK Leipzig, Official Selection (Leipzig, Germany)
IFF Message to Man, Official Selection (Saint Petersburg, Russia)
CHIMERES (Création – Hybridation – Immersion – Mobilités), creative lab «Imaginary Future Worlds» (Lyon, France – Moscow, Russia – Erevan, Armenia)
Vaults Centre for Artistic Production, GES-2, project residency (Moscow, Russia)
Land Art Festival – Archstoyanie, Solo Show (Nikola Lenivets, Russia)
Multimedia Art Museum (MAMM), Group exhibition at Night of Museums (Moscow, Russia)
GES-2, lab «Extraordinary Prose», winner (Moscow, Russia)
IFF Moscow Shorts, winner (Moscow, Russia)
IFF Spirit of Fire, Grand-prix (Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia)
Vkratze! Film Festival, special mention (Volgograd, Russia)
Dom Radio – musicAeterna, Group Exhibition (Saint Petersburg, Russia)
2021
Multimedia Art Museum (MAMM), Group Exhibition at Art Night (Moscow, Russia)
DOK Leipzig, Dok Co-Pro, selected project (Leipzig, Germany)
Izmaylovo Gallery, Group Exhibition «Pass the Salt» (Moscow, Russia)
Ural Industrial Biennale, Group almanac «Time to Hug and to Avoid Hugs» (Ekaterinburg, Russia)
Khodynka Gallery, Group Exhibition «Frequencies 2:0» (Moscow, Russia)
Street Art Museum, Group Exhibition «Criticizing, Suggesting» (Saint Petersburg, Russia)
Vaults Centre for Artistic Production, GES-2, ColLab program, winner (Moscow, Russia)
NUR International Media Art Festival, Group Exhibition (Kazan, Russia)
IFF Artdocfest, Baltic Sea Docs pitch (Riga, Latvia)
B2B Doc, lab, special mention by Documentary Association of Europe (Stockholm, Sweden)
East West Talent Lab – goEast Film Festival, nominated project (Wiesbaden, Germany)