DOCU/PRO People

Oleksandr Makhanets

Oleksandr Makhanets is a historian, archivist, curator of exhibitions, and head of the Urban Media Archive at the Centre for Urban History. He graduated from the Humanities Faculty of the UCU with a master’s degree in history. Since 2015, he has been working on the Urban Media Archive project at the Centre for Urban History, developing and preserving its visual and audio-visual collections. Curator of the [unarchiving] program, which is designed to promote archival heritage to the general public in non-academic forms and formats. Since 2016, he has been the founder and curator of the International Home Movie Day in Lviv. Oleksandr has also been collaborating with the Wiz-Art Film Festival since 2016, and in 2019–2020 he was the festival’s programme coordinator. In 2019, he started his current research project on the history of film amateurs’ practices in Ukraine in the second half of the 20th century.