Name
Oksana Sarkisova
Professional Area
Researcher, Verzio IHRDFF Program Curator
Company
Blinken OSA Archivum
The Blinken OSA Archivum (archivum.org) is a complex archival and educational institution. The Archivum is a repository of important collections, historical documents, primarily related to the history and afterlives of the Cold War, grave international human rights violations and marginalized communities including the Roma, LGBTQI+ people, and people living with disabilities. Since 2004 it organizes Verzio International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival (verzio.org)
Country
Hungary
Accreditation
BIO TO B | DOC
Oksana Sarkisova is Senior Research Fellow at Blinken OSA Archivum at Central European University and co-founder and Steering Committee member of Visual Studies Platform at CEU. In 2004, she co-founded and in 2008-2023 directed Verzio International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, Budapest. Her fields of research are cultural history, experimental cinema and the use of found footage, memory and representation, film history, amateur photography, and visual studies. She curates Viewfinder section dedicated to creative repurposing of archival footage in film.